He distinctly remembers when this happened in a somber December.
He’s sitting by a dying fire that has created a ghost like duskiness.
He assumes the presences of the ghost to be his late Lenore.
He describes Lenore to be a heavenly being, “ … whom the angels name Lenore”.
He describes his scenery of the curtains to be a dark dreary purple that gave him a terror he has never experienced before.
Still as the story progresses he convinces himself it’s just a person because he has been immediately woken up,