childhood nightmare
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- description
- A vivid and terrifying childhood experience of the narrator being sent to bed early and feeling a 'supernatural hand' in the dark, which he later compares to his strange sensations upon waking next to Queequeg.
- duration
- several hours, ages piled on ages
- key_element
- supernatural hand
- protagonist
- Narrator (child)
- setting
- little room in the third floor
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- involvedSupernatural Hand
- description
- The central terrifying element of the narrator's childhood nightmare was the sensation of a supernatural hand in his own.
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- but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine. My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bed-side
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:02:42.133Z
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