Author:  Edgar Allan Poe
Online reading time: 1 hr.
Published:  1844
Original language:  English
Type:  Story , Novel
Literary Genre: Horror, Fiction, Mystic Romance , Psychological Romance

The Premature Burial is an 1844 short story in the horror genre by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The main part of the story is prefaced by several short stories of cases in which people were buried alive, believing them to be dead, although they were in a deep state of unconsciousness, coma, or stupor.

The hero of the story is sick with catalepsy, where a state of deep lethargy can last from days to weeks. He is haunted by the fear of being buried alive ….