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Advertisement & Chapter I

• Chapter I starts out with a warning about fantastic horrors that the narrator is about to relate and the misfortunes that have befallen her and her family.

• She then relates her family history.

• The focus is on her father and how he became a religious fanatic in Europe.

• He had little success in this task, but purchased land near Philadelphia and settled there, marrying and building a temple.

• His religious mania had led to him discarding the tenets of any sect.

• He called his estate Mettingen.

• The narrator discusses her father's descent into deep depression.

Chapters II & III

• In Chapter II, the narrator describes the mysterious events of her father's death. He had gone to his temple, alone.

• Her mother could see the temple from her window and witnessed a flash of light followed by the sound of an explosion.

• Thinking that a gunshot had...

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