No major commentary in this post; the video above is my reading of a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is about what was called "mesmerism" back in the day. Poe wrote it all the way back in 1845 or so, when it was published in The American Review and Broadway Journal. Poe wrote a bunch of good, short fiction, but this was a story I'd never heard of. And it was good enough to reprint in the first issue of Amazing Stories.
It provides a dark and horrific result to a test that was, according to what I've read, plausible enough at the time: What happens if you mesmerize a man just before he dies?
Anyway, enjoy the reading! I'm going to try to do more of them as time goes on.
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