In introducing himself, the narrator of this story goes on a brief digression explaining that it's folly to presume that he had no past life.
In introducing himself, the narrator of this story goes on a brief digression explaining that it's folly to presume that he had no past life. The narrator of this story is preoccupied with an unintelligible sentence from Tertullian's de Carne Christi, and exclaims, in French, that the central objects were merely "ideas! Ideas!" A passage ending with the narrator leaving an apartment with "triple horror, and mystery, and death" was removed after terrified readers complained to the editors of the (*) Southern Literary Messenger. This story ends with the narrator, who is named Egaeus, waking from a dream to find himself in a library, then using a spade to force open an ivory box that contains dental instruments and the blood-stained, ever-present thirty two ivory teeth. For 10 points, name this violent horror story by Poe, whose narrator marries his epileptic cousin.
In introducing himself, the narrator of this story goes on a brief digression explaining that it's folly to presume that he had no past life.
“{Berenice}”