Blog11

For this blog I choose a short horror story Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe.It was first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835.The story is about a man named
Egaeus who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. He has a tendency to fall into periods of intense focus during which he seems to separate himself from the outside world. Berenice begins to deteriorate from an unnamed disease until the only part of her remaining healthy is her teeth, which Egaeus begins to obsess over. Berenice dies and Egaeus continues to contemplate her teeth. Deep in thought, he is interrupted by a servant who tells him Berenice's grave has been disturbed. Covered in blood, Egaeus sees beside him several dentistry tools — and a box containing 32 white teeth.Some of the themes applied by Poe in this story are mental illness,being burried alive and death of a beautiful woman.

http://poestories.com/read/berenice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_(short_story)