SOURCE: “Phantasms of Death in Poe's Fiction,” in The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920, edited by Howard Kerr, John W. Crowley, and Charles L. Crow, University of Georgia Press, 1983, pp. 39-65.
In the following essay, Kennedy discusses four conceptual models of death in Poe's fiction: physical annihilation, compulsion, separation, and transformation.
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