in the premature burial, the unnamed narrator talks about such things as "attacks of the singular disorder, which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy" (a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance). This leads to his fear of being buried alive. He emphasizes his fear by mentioned several people who have been buried alive. In the first case, the tragic accident was only discovered at a later time, when the victim's crypt was reopened. In others, victims were revived and able to draw attention to themselves in time to be freed from their
