Deep within us is the dread of dying of moving on from life to another state of being. We assume it comes about through accident, perhaps even murder or disease that can be sudden or can take years to pull us into oblivion. But perhaps trumping all of these is the fear of being buried alive. The sheer terror of being totally trapped, unable to summon help and escape, fills one and all with a deeply unique terror.In this volume such icons as Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce and Honoré de Balzac take us on a journey that will do our helpless fear of this no good at all.Buried Alive - Short Stories - An Introduction - The Fall of the House of Usher Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford - The Cask of Amontillardo by Edgar Allan Poe - La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac - One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce - The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe - 1 - Inside the Mind of Madness - An Introduction2 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman3 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy4 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe5 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol6 - The Devil In Manuscript by Nathaniel Hawthorne7 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall8 - The Red Egg by Anatole France9 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain10 - A Red Flower by Vsevolod Garshin11 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne