Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear St Benedict of Nursia In the fall of 1869

In the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

ISBN13: 9781573833189

Each topic is treated with straightforward but gentle wisdom and frequent splashes of humor

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Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear St Benedict of Nursia In the fall of 1869Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales just think of The Premature Burial may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found in horrific, contorted positions inside their coffins, that ten out of every one