Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe was firt pubished in the September 18, 1838, edition of the American Museum magazine.
The story is one of an unidentified narrator and his obsessive marriage to Ligeia, a raven-haired, intelligent, mystical woman. After she becomes ill and dies, Poemeets and marries a blonde woman, but he does not love her.
As the second wife is dying, the narrator notes a drop of red liquid dropping into the glass from which he is drinking, although he is uncertain if that is reality or an opium-induced hallucination. After his wife dies, she resurrects as Ligeia.
Read it at http://poestories.com/read/ligeia.
The story is one of an unidentified narrator and his obsessive marriage to Ligeia, a raven-haired, intelligent, mystical woman. After she becomes ill and dies, Poemeets and marries a blonde woman, but he does not love her.
As the second wife is dying, the narrator notes a drop of red liquid dropping into the glass from which he is drinking, although he is uncertain if that is reality or an opium-induced hallucination. After his wife dies, she resurrects as Ligeia.
Read it at http://poestories.com/read/ligeia.
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