[
 {
  "chunk": 101,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The narrator says a garbled rumour of the case has spread disbelief, so he must set out the facts: he wanted to learn whether a mesmeric trance could hold off death in a dying man.",
  "predicament": "A man whose private experiment has leaked out in garbled form must now tell the truth, knowing few will believe it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 102,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "He chooses a friend, a nervous, emaciated scholar dying of consumption, whom he had mesmerised before without full control, and who speaks calmly of his coming death.",
  "predicament": "An experimenter looks for a subject for a dangerous trial and settles on a dying friend who seems not to fear death."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 103,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The friend, with no relatives to object, is keen, and agrees to send for him a day before the doctors' predicted hour of death; the note comes: come now.",
  "predicament": "A dying man agrees to let a friend experiment on him at the hour of his death, and sends word when it comes."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 104,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The narrator finds his friend terribly wasted but clear-minded, writing notes in bed with two doctors present.",
  "predicament": "A man arrives at a friend's deathbed and is shocked by how far he has declined in only a few days."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 105,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The doctors explain the lungs are nearly destroyed and predict death at midnight the next day; they say farewell but agree to look in again.",
  "predicament": "Physicians give a dying man a precise hour of death and take their leave, while an experimenter asks them to return."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 106,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "Waiting for a reliable witness, the narrator begins the next evening with a medical student taking notes; the dying man consents, but fears it has been left too late.",
  "predicament": "An experimenter delays a risky trial until he has a reliable witness, and the dying subject fears he has waited too long."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 107,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "With the doctors' consent he makes his passes as the man sinks into the death agony; the breathing changes and the limbs go icy.",
  "predicament": "An experimenter keeps working on a man in his last agony, with the doctors' consent, to see what the trance can do."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 108,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "By midnight the patient is in a perfect trance, limbs rigid and cold as marble, breathing barely perceptible, yet not dead; the doctors are fascinated.",
  "predicament": "An experimenter succeeds in suspending a dying man between life and death, and the watching doctors are captivated."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 109,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "At three the man's arm follows the narrator's hand; asked if he sleeps, he whispers \"Yes, asleep now. Do not wake me! let me die so!\"",
  "predicament": "A dying man held in a trance begs the one controlling him not to wake him, but to let him die."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 110,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "At dawn, asked again, he whispers that he is still asleep and dying; as the narrator repeats the question, his face collapses into a hideous corpse-like mask.",
  "predicament": "An experimenter ignores the doctors' wish to let a dying man rest and questions him once more, with dreadful results."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 111,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "Taken for dead, the man's tongue vibrates and an unearthly distant voice says: \"I have been sleeping, and now I am dead.\"",
  "predicament": "Someone everyone had given up for dead speaks from beyond it, and tells them he is dead."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 112,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The student faints and the nurses flee; the body no longer breathes or bleeds, and responds only to the narrator's questions with a vibrating tongue.",
  "predicament": "A man realises that he alone keeps a dead man tied to this world, and no one else can reach him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 113,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "For seven months the man lies unchanged, death apparently arrested; at last they try to wake him, and a foul yellow fluid seeps from his eyes.",
  "predicament": "People who have held someone in a state between life and death for months finally decide to try to end it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 114,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The voice cries \"put me to sleep, or waken me! I am dead!\"; as the narrator makes the passes to wake him, the body rots away instantly into liquid putrescence.",
  "predicament": "A man in a state neither living nor dead begs to be released, and releasing him brings instant horror."
 }
]