For your discussion response, please consider and respond to the following:

1) Why does the main character worry about being buried alive? What evidence or stories about the phenomenon does he share with us?

2) How does the narrator escape his fear of being buried alive? What does this say about deep-seeded fear?

3) Comparing this story, The Sphinx or Some Words with a Mummy, and Hop Frog to the works which typically are more well-known... why do you think these aren't as famous? What is the difference between these works and something like The Telltale Heart, for instance? For the premature burial