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of being haunted by death in life and his belief in communication with the spirit world. The old man becomes agitated in terrible anxiety in stanza three, as rustling of the curtain's fills him with "fantastic terrors" over what he thinks is a "visitor" (Poe, 2008, p. 1). In the next three stanzas, the speaker opens the door but nothing is the

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