Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether". The Fred Olen Ray film Haunting Fear (1991) starring Brinke Stevens is loosely based on "The Premature Burial". The onscreen credits actually call the movie "Edgar Allan Poe's Haunting Fear" despite significant differences with the original 1844 Poe story, including being set in the present day, the main character being female, and ending with her being intentionally put inside a coffin with the purpose of scaring her to death. ERS Game studio released a PC adventure game based on the story called Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Premature Burial Collector's Edition. References External links Full text on PoeStories.com with hyperlinked vocabulary words. "Nightmares from the Mind of Poe" full text, summary and film information. 1844 short stories Short stories adapted into films Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe Works originally published in American newspapers