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"The Premature Burial" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Its main character expresses fear about being buried alive. This fear was common in this period and Poe was taking advantage of the public interest. In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance. This leads to his fear of being buried alive.

"The Blue Cross" is a short story by G. K. Chesterton. It was the first Father Brown short story and also introduces the characters Flambeau and Valentin. It is unique among the Father Brown mysteries in that it does not follow the actions of the Father himself, but rather those of Valentin.

لقد وافقت يا صغيرتي .. و مشيت معي بين الأطلال .. بين الشواهد .. لا ترين شيئاً تقريباً لكنك تثقين بي .. نهبط من هنا و نصعد من هنا .. تمسكين يدي بيد راجفة خائفة .. تلهثين...

"وعندما بدأنا نكبر بدأت أمهاتنا في الرحيل إلى أسفل شواهد القبور..كان آباؤنا يحملون المحفّات المحملةِ بجثثهنَّ وكنّا نسعى بينهم وعيوننا تنهمر منها الدموع...وكان...

The recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Each time she can see the murderer clearly, and it’s the mild-mannered man she had previously been engaged to, taking his revenge. But, what’s worse is that at the end of the dream she thanks...