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Buried Alive: The Terrifying History Of Our Most Primal Fear
Buried Alive The Terrifying History Of Our Most Primal Fear
Author: Jan Bondeson
An engrossing and witty history of the fear and the facts of being buried alive. Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales--just think of The Premature Burial--may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journa...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780756774721
ISBN-10: 0756774721
Publication Date: 2/2004
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Interesting topic but the book is a bit boring. I got the feeling that the author was just throwing everything he could into it to make it longer. I was not impressed.


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