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Poe's Short Story "Berenice" Summary
23:53 - 28:03 (04:09)
"Berenice" is Edgar Allan Poe's first short horror story. It tells the disturbing tale of a woman with a degenerative disease, whose perfect teeth become an obsession for her male lover, leading to a gruesome ending.
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The conversation touches on the similarity between the movie Saw and the concept of a person being trapped and tortured in a room while someone watches them.
23:53 - 24:36 (00:43)
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The conversation touches on the similarity between the movie Saw and the concept of a person being trapped and tortured in a room while someone watches them. They also mention the infamous line from the character Jigsaw, "Do you want to play a game?"
ChapterPoe's Short Story "Berenice" Summary
Episode101: Terrible Tales. Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site.
PodcastNational Park After Dark
A man becomes unhinged by the impending death of his cousin and wife-to-be, Berenice, and after a dissociative episode, awakes to discover her alive but with her teeth missing.
24:43 - 28:03 (03:19)
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A man becomes unhinged by the impending death of his cousin and wife-to-be, Berenice, and after a dissociative episode, awakes to discover her alive but with her teeth missing. In a gruesome twist, it is revealed that the main character had pulled her teeth out during his fugue state.