[
 {
  "chunk": 245,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "The narrator argues that some themes are too horrible for fiction and are bearable only as fact, and that the worst suffering is borne by one person alone, not by crowds.",
  "predicament": "A writer insists that the worst horrors are the ones endured by a single person alone, not by crowds together."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 246,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "He declares burial alive the most terrible fate, and says it must often happen, since the line between life and death is vague and some diseases only suspend life.",
  "predicament": "Someone becomes convinced that the line between living and dead is too vague to trust anyone to judge it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 247,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "He cites a case: a respected man's wife seemed to die, was entombed in the family vault, and when the vault was opened three years later her skeleton fell into his arms.",
  "predicament": "A husband opens a family tomb years after a burial and learns his wife was put there while still alive."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 248,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "Investigation showed she had revived, broken out of her coffin, beaten on the iron door with a piece of it, and died there standing, caught on the ironwork.",
  "predicament": "A woman wakes inside a sealed tomb and beats on the door for help that never comes."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 249,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "A French heiress rejected a poor suitor for a rich, cruel husband, seemed to die, and was buried; the suitor dug her up for a lock of her hair, she woke, and she fled abroad with him, later winning in court against her husband's claim.",
  "predicament": "A rejected lover who digs up the woman he lost to another man finds her still alive, and wins her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 250,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "A robust officer, after a head injury, was buried hastily; a visitor felt the grave move, and when it was dug up he was found half-sitting, having forced the lid up.",
  "predicament": "A man buried in haste struggles in his grave while people walk overhead, and only one stranger feels it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 251,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "The officer revived and described hearing the crowd above; he later died from a galvanic experiment; this recalls a young lawyer revived by galvanism after two days in the grave.",
  "predicament": "A man rescued from a living grave describes hearing people overhead, unable to make them hear him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 252,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "The lawyer's body was stolen by doctors for private dissection; after an incision, a student's electric experiment made him rise from the table, speak, and fall.",
  "predicament": "A man taken for dead is about to be cut open by doctors when he manages to rise and speak."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 253,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "He recovered, and said he had been dimly aware throughout, from the doctors pronouncing him dead to the dissecting room, trying to say \"I am alive\"; many graves hold skeletons in suspicious postures.",
  "predicament": "A man pronounced dead stays aware of everything done to him, and cannot make anyone understand he is alive."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 254,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "He describes the horror of burial alive: suffocation, darkness, silence, and the knowledge that friends who would save you can never know; and he says what follows is his own experience.",
  "predicament": "Someone dwells on the thought of being shut in the dark where loved ones would help if only they knew."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 255,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "He has suffered for years from catalepsy, trances that can last weeks and look exactly like death; sufferers are usually saved only because friends know their history.",
  "predicament": "A man with an illness that can make him look dead knows his life depends on others remembering it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 256,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "His trances came sometimes gradually and sometimes as a sudden plunge into weeks of nothingness; even ordinary sleep left him confused and without memory for a while on waking.",
  "predicament": "A man who drops without warning into death-like trances never knows when he wakes where he is or what happened."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 257,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "He became obsessed with premature burial and dreaded sleep; in one dream an icy hand wakes him in the dark, and a gibbering voice commands him to arise.",
  "predicament": "A man so haunted by the fear of being buried alive that he dreads falling asleep is tormented by it in dreams."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 258,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "The voice, a pitying fiend, opens all the graves of mankind to show that many of the buried are not at rest but stir and struggle; the graves slam shut amid cries.",
  "predicament": "A dreamer is shown the fate he fears most happening to countless others, and cannot look away."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 259,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "His terror spread to waking life: he would not leave home or trust even his friends not to bury him; he extracted oaths and built a vault and coffin that could be opened from inside, with air, food, and a bell.",
  "predicament": "A man terrified of being buried alive stops trusting even his friends, and builds elaborate precautions against the fate."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 260,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "He describes slowly coming to consciousness from a trance, until memory returns and he is overwhelmed by the thought of his one great danger.",
  "predicament": "A man waking slowly from a death-like trance remembers where his worst fear says he might be."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 261,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "Afraid to move, he opens his eyes to utter darkness, cannot cry out, feels his jaw bound as for the dead, and his arms strike a wooden lid inches above his face.",
  "predicament": "A man wakes in darkness with his jaw bound and wood inches above his face, and knows he has been buried."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 262,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "He thinks of his precautions, but the lid will not open, there is no bell-rope or padding, and he smells earth: strangers have buried him in a common grave; he shrieks, and rough voices answer and shake him.",
  "predicament": "A man realises that all his precautions were useless, because the thing he feared happened far from home among strangers."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 263,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "It was a dream: he had slept in a narrow berth on a small boat carrying garden soil, his jaw bound with a handkerchief, and the sailors had woken him.",
  "predicament": "A man who was sure he had been buried alive discovers it was only his own fear and a cramped bed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 264,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "The horror cured him: he took to exercise and fresh air, burned his medical books, stopped thinking of death, and the catalepsy vanished with the fear; such terrors must be let sleep, or they devour us.",
  "predicament": "A man cured of a lifelong dread by facing its full horror once decides some fears must be let sleep."
 }
]