midnight
Poe could lose no time in preparing a place for his climax ; and therefore he was obliged , as soon as he had laid Ligeia in the grave , to begin an elaborate description of the stage settings of his final scene . The place must be wild and weird and arabesque . It must be worthy to receive a resurrected mortal revisiting the glimpses of the moon . The place was found , the time -- midnight -- decided upon : but the question remained , -- _ how _ should Ligeia be resurrected ? And here arose almost an insuperable difficulty . Ligeia had been buried -LRB- _ must have been _ buried , as we have seen -RRB- , and her body had been given to the worms . Yet now she must be revived .