 Poe would later use teeth as a sign of mortality, as in lips writhing about the teeth of the mesmerized man in "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", the sound of grating teeth in "Hop-Frog", and the obsession over teeth in "Berenice".Death by fire would later be reused in Poe's story "Hop-Frog" as another punishment.Though Poe was emulating popular horror fiction of the time, "Metzengerstein" shows what made Poe's horror tales stand out