Priya Chand

2 months ago | nightmare-magazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Priya Chand

Anyone who’s read Edgar Allan Poe knows that he was fascinated—alongside many others of his era—by the prospect of premature burial. It’s not hard to imagine why: Prior to modern imaging equipment, and particularly in Western traditions where corpses were buried intact, a person could, at the hand of their own well-meaning family, end up interred and helpless to do anything but slowly run out of sustenance and air. No malice required, just ignorance.