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Poe wants you to believe that this "disease" he has is a factual thing, he even goes as far as to describe what it is like to be in the state of comatose, how you can hear things and see things, but everything you see and hear are twisted and not of what you would normally see and hear. How you can't move which makes others believe you are dead, promoting the premature burial. The disease is actually called Cotard's delusion, its a metal disorder where the person has delusions believing they are no longer exist or are dead, first instance was in the 1700's.








This is like the old ghost tale around the campfire story. It is told that wishes come true and that the guy who "owned" it had bad things happen to him and the others don't care about the bad, they only care about the wishes, human greed. This is a supernatural story in the sense that it makes you believe that the wishes actually work, that the 200 lbs that was wished for was what caused the son's death, and then they wished him back, but you never find out if it was actually him at the door, though through a sixth sense the father believes the "thing" on the other side of the door is not his son. The end makes it seem like both the parents disappear. Very nicely put ghost story!


update: after talking about the common practice of being buried alive, I do believe I will be making it part of my will that whoever performs my autopsy makes sure I am dead before proceeding on, that is craziness! monkeys paw in theater form sucked, I really found it boring, I found more excitement by reading the story, at least it left things for the imagination.