"Take me away, take me away--oh take me away from her!"

"And Being, but an Ear,
...
Wrecked, solitary, here -"

An apparition or double of a living person

He is known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

The narrator of "The Yellow Wall-paper" is diagnosed with this medical condition thought to be particular to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus

"If haunting describes how that which appears to be not there is often a seething presence, acting on and often meddling with taken-for-granted realities, the ghost is just the sign..."

"And I, and Silence, some strange Race"

Something that was intended to remain secret, hidden away, and has come into the open

A prolific poet famous for poems with short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation

Grace's children are structured around a series of complex rules designed to protect them from this condition

"The story won't tell . . not in any literal vulgar way."

"Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb -"

A moving mechanical device made in imitation of a human being

A prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform whose best remembered work today is a semi-autobiographical short story.

In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the exactness with which the narrator recounts murdering the old man, as if his stealthy way of executing the crime is evidence of his sanity, is suggestive of this condition,which is heavily influenced by anxiety or fear

"Your exercise depends on your strength, . . . and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time."

"As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,"

1. Of or relating to work or a job regarded as servile.
2. Of, relating to, or appropriate for a servant.

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, he was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.

All three servants in The Others are revealed to have died from this disease

"I repeat that I am dying."

"Just let go the Breath -"

Not simply a dead or a missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life

He insisted that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. Known for his imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators.

This disease, whose primary symptoms are profuse diarrhea and vomiting of clear fluid, which usually start suddenly, half a day to five days after ingestion of the bacteria, is one of the possible inspirations for Poe's "Masque of the Red Death"