← Back

Mesmeric Revelation

Edgar Allan Poe

First published January 1850
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Basically an inferior precursor to Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", with the same basic premise: hypnotist places someone in a trace, that person dies while in the trance, and that person lives temporarily across death.<br> Available on page 326, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?GRSBCKYR1999">Bleiler (Gernsback)</a>.

First published in Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, August 1844.
See the notes here and this OCR scan.
en.wikisource.org librivox.org

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1850 The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe J. S. Redfield Collection 110
1853 The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe J. S. Redfield Collection 110
1856 The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe J. S. Redfield Collection 110
1902 The Gold-Bug and Other Tales A. L. Burt Company Collection 135
1903 Prose Tales of Mystery and Imagination Grosset & Dunlap Collection |16
1903 Cover The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 2 (Raven Edition) P. F. Collier & Son Collection 101
1905 Cover The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 3 Croscup & Holby Collection
May 1926 Cover Amazing Stories, May 1926 Experimenter Publishing Company MAGAZINE 124
1927 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Poems, Tales, Essays, Criticisms with New Notes Walter J. Black, Inc. Collection 406
1931 The Best Known Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Poems, Tales, Essays, Criticisms Blue Ribbon Books Collection 406
1938 Cover The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Modern Library Collection 88
1949 Cover The Centenary Poe: Tales, Poems, Criticism, Marginalia, and Eureka John Lane, The Bodley Head Collection |5
1966 Cover Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe International Collectors Library Collection 505
1966 Cover Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Doubleday Collection 505
1969 Tales and The Raven and Other Poems Charles E. Merrill Collection |4
1971 Cover Seven Tales Schocken Books Collection 77
September 1975 Cover The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Vintage Books Collection 88
1976 Cover The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe Penguin Books Collection 124
1977 Cover The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe Penguin Books Collection 124
1981 Cover The Annotated Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Doubleday Collection
1982 Cover The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe Penguin Books Collection 124
1983 Cover Edgar Allan Poe Chatham River Press Collection 426
August 1984 Cover Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales The Library of America Collection 717
1985 Cover Works of Edgar Allan Poe Gramercy Books Omnibus 426
1988 Cover Visions of Poe Webb & Bower Collection 18
November 1988 Cover Visions of Poe Alfred A. Knopf Collection 18
March 1991 Cover Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Doubleday Collection 505
1992 Cover The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Modern Library Collection 88
1994 Cover Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales The Library of America Collection 717
July 1997 Cover Dancing with the Dark Vista Nonfiction
August 1999 Cover Dancing with the Dark Carroll & Graf Nonfiction 257
April 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 2 (Raven Edition) Project Gutenberg Collection
October 2009 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 6 LibriVox Anthology |6
November 2009 Cover Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems Castle Books Collection 41
February 2015 Cover Science Fiction Classics #2 Pulp Tales Press Anthology 124
August 2017 Cover Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Collection 62
December 2018 Cover Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Collection |62
September 2022 Cover Compelling Science Fiction Flame Tree Press Anthology 261