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Long before [[Creator/StephenKing King]] and before [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft]], the writings of the man from Baltimore provided American literature's scares.
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* Imagine being watched every night as you sleep by a paranoid lunatic plotting to kill you because of a deformity you were born with. Now imagine waking up and knowing that someone is in the room with you but you [[NothingIsScarier don't know where they are]].
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* A person's first reading of this is sure-fire sleep deprivation.
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* Fortunato getting sealed up alive behind a wall of bricks! [[spoiler: And the guy who did it [[KarmaHoudini getting away with it.]]]]
* In animated adaptation, the moment when [[spoiler: the characters start screaming and there's a closeup on their distorted faces]].

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* Fortunato getting sealed up alive behind a wall of bricks! [[spoiler: And the guy who did it [[KarmaHoudini getting away with it.]]]]
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* In animated adaptation, the moment when [[spoiler: the characters start screaming and there's a closeup on their distorted faces]].
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* The whole concept of this little-known tale is terrifying. A man hypnotized on the brink of death is frozen there for weeks, and when he's brought out of the trance, [[spoiler:he rots, in a matter of seconds, into a putrid mass]]. This story must have been doubly unsettling to the people who thought it was a real scientific report back when it was originally published.

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* The whole concept of this little-known tale is terrifying. A man hypnotized on the brink of death is frozen there for weeks, and when he's brought out of the trance, [[spoiler:he he rots, in a matter of seconds, into a putrid mass]].mass. This story must have been doubly unsettling to the people who thought it was a real scientific report back when it was originally published.



--> I ''have been sleeping''... and now... now... [[spoiler:''I am dead''.]]

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--> I ''have been sleeping''... and now... now... [[spoiler:''I ''I am dead''.]]
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* Meeting your exact doppelgänger is kind of scary and eerie, but having him being stuck with you and trying to catch up with your every step? Double scary. [[spoiler: And ''murdering'' your doppelganger in front of your blood-stained mirror while you're also indirectly dying? Eerie.]]

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* Meeting your exact doppelgänger is kind of scary and eerie, but having him being stuck with you and trying to catch up with your every step? Double scary. [[spoiler: And ''murdering'' your doppelganger in front of your blood-stained mirror while you're also indirectly dying? Eerie.]]
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