"The Premature Burial" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Its main character expresses concern about being buried alive. This fear was common in this period and Poe was taking advantage of the public interest. ---------- This story also contained in: [Best Horror Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7453685W) [Comedies and Satires](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645846W) [Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273468W) [Complete Tales and Poems](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937994W) [Derniers Contes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15179334W) [Edgar Allan Poe's Erzählungen](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24924103W) [El gato negro y otros cuentos](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24824698W) [Forgotten Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15140054W) [Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16056699W) [Historias estraordinarias](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938009W) [Miscellaneous Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24828526W) [Mysteries and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24955662W) [Mystery Tales of Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938029W) [Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40988W) [Ne pariez jamais votre tête au diable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646079W) [Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16060655W) [Poe Reader](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17854941W) [Racconti del terrore](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24957536W) [Selected tales of Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938092W) [Tales--Mystery and Occultism/Horror and Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24903243W) [Tales-Horror and Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24845863W) [Tales: Volume III](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24945061W) [Tales: Volume II](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24823742W) [Tales of Mystery, Imagination, & Humour, and Poems](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41040W) [Tales of Mystery and Horror: Vol. III](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19956142W) [Tales of Mystery and Imagination](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15153653W) [Tales of Mystery and Imagination](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25225263W) [Tales of Suspense](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41009W) [Tales of Terror and Fantasy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273514W) [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque III](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24842319W) [Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24841858W) [Twelve Creepy Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24900303W) [Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Vol. II](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24834309W) [Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273463W) [Ιστορίες αλλόκοτες](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24936750W)