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My Nightmare. The Last Tale by Poe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

John E. Englekirk*
Affiliation:
The University of New Mexico

Extract

Mi Pesadilla,“ alleged to be ”the last tale by Edgar Poe,“ appeared in El Mundo Ilustrado of Mexico City in its issue of March 9, 1902. The translator does not reveal his identity nor does he offer any further information concerning the source of the original. The title is not suggestive of any tale in the Poe canon, and a reading of the story must convince one that it could not be an extravagantly free version or adaptation of any of Poe's known tales. The supposition that ”My Nightmare“ might be another positive contribution to the Poe canon—a tale inedited and lost until its miraculous reappearance in a Mexican review a half-century after Poe's death,—must be discarded as highly improbable.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1937

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