... a particular form of the over-soul, which is a big part of transcendentalism. There were a variety of gothic elements and symbols in both stories. In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment-, the setting is Dr. Heidegger's dark, gloomy, dusty house with old cabinets and things everywhere. There is even a skeleton in a tall oaken closet. Out of all the old, weird things, he has a mirror that "was fabled that the spirits of all the doctor's deceased patients ... dwelt within its verge, and would stare him in the face whenever he looked thitherward- (503). He ... ...

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