The horror in phantom of the Rue Morgue is more to be taken lightly than seriously, since the shocker quality in Edgar Allen Poe‘s chiller tale, Murders in the Rue Morgue, has been dimmed ...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was never one for a happy ending. The celebrated writer of stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” ...

Thus is born, in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the world's first sleuth, and the first story of detective fiction. Poe's focus on the gruesome nature of crimes ⁠— and the ...

He’d already penned and published short stories like “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) and “The Black Cat” (1843). Still, it was this stylized and rhythmic ballad of 18 six-line ...

He published a few of his most classic works in the city: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Gold-Bug." There are differing accounts as to whether he had ...