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The Oval Portrait

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"The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing tale of a portrait in a chateau. The story revolves around a man staying the night in an old manor house. He notices a terribly life-like portrait of a beautiful young woman in his room. He reads the tale behind it, finding out that it was a portrait by an artist of his young wife.

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