Just need an opinion On the next page is a 1919 illustration by Henry Clarke for "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" in Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination. It is titled "Upon the bed there lay a nearly liquid mass of loathsome detestable putridity" (1). Beneath that is a series of images taken from the same scene in the video we watched (2). Which portrayal of the scene best captures the imagery and tone in the text below?
"As I rapidly made the mesmeric passes, amid [shouts] of ‘dead! dead!’ absolutely bursting from the tongue and not from the lips of the sufferer, his whole frame at once--within the space of a single minute, or even less, shrunk--crumbled--absolutely rotted away beneath my hands. Upon the bed, before that whole company, there lay a nearly liquid mass of loathsome--of detestable putridity."