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The story The Balloon Hoax actually appeared in the April 13, 1844 New York Sun, and was about the fictitious first transatlantic voyage, which people that read it were actually believing. Even though this article is real, I decided to include a…

In the story Ligeia, there is a censer, which is an incense burner, that puts off light in the brides chamber where the narrator's second wife, Lady Rowena Trevanion, is dying. The narrator keeps seeing shadows from the light but there is nothing…