The Murders in the Rue Morgue: And Other Stories

by Edgar Allan Poe

Köln. 17 cm. 310 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma inglés. and other stories. BO .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 389508090X

Genres: Short Stories, Horror, Mystery, Classics

330 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1995

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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Reviews

[Noelle Puschell · Rating 5 out of 5]

You can never go wrong with my boy Edgar. Interesting stories in this though with several mysteries instead of horror, and a treasure hunt! There was only one story that was incredibly boring, but otherwise it's fantastic.

[Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun fact I learned about Poe: he is considered the be the first to write what we consider a modern detective story. His character C. Auguste Dupin was a prototype for Sherlock Holmes, and Sir Arthur Conn Doyle (through Dr Watson) actually makes a nod to the character in A Study in Scarlett. It's pretty easy to see how the character served as future inspiration.

[Eva Castro · Rating 3 out of 5]

Linme so The Murders in the Rue Morgue pois outros xa os lin noutras edicións.
Debo dicir que é interesante como está enfocado o relato na análise punto por punto dos feitos dende a mente dun detective brillante.
O libro sería moito mellor se a portada non arruinase o misterio principal da historia, eu non sei quen escolle isto pero moi mal escollido. Unha portada debe ser representativa pero debería evitar arruinar o libro.

[Lauren King · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had no idea Poe was the inventor of the modern detective story but there you have it -- Dupin was def. an inspiration for Poirot, lol. I esp. enjoyed the application of human psychology & reasoning. However, I did prefer the non-mystery selections. I liked “The Purloined Letter”, “The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade”, & of course, “The Raven”.

[Carla Magri · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read:

The black cat
The murders in the rue Morgue
The cask of Amontillado
The fall of the house of Usher
The pit and the pendulum
The tell tale heart

Liked them all. Very unsettling and evocative.
Not my favourite writer or genre but I am impressed and amazed at his early genius.

[Books&Cats · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
You must read them at midnight. It gives you goosebumps when you think about the horrors you read, but at the same time you feel an unimaginable satisfaction.

[Andrew Goodman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Checked it out after watching The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. Difficult to read but worthwhile to get an understanding of how literature was constructed in the gothic age

[Chris Baker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Poe was a literary pioneer, one of the first American writers to make a living from his work in the 1830s and 1840s. Known for penning gothic tales of the macabre and some of the first known detective mysteries, his influence extends through the penny dreadful fiction of the Victorians and weird tales of the 1930s right through to the best horror and crime writers of today. While I'd like to report that I was dazzled, thanks to Poe's peculiar early nineteenth century style of writing and rather long-winded method of storytelling I found reading this collection to be more an enjoyable exercise in literary archeology than a revelation. Most of the classic tales are in there, including the Pit and the Pendulum, the Masque of the Red Death and the eponymous title. If I were to pick a favourite, the Masque of the Red Death manages to convey a brilliantly original idea with more flair and brevity than the rest. Worth reading for literary completion, but at times a bit of a slog. It's a shame that his most famous story The Raven isn't included.

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I gained a real appreciation for Edgar Allan Poe after reading "The Beautiful Cigar Girl". I had no idea he was so brilliant and so troubled. I read the stories referred to as I was reading the book..."The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget", and I plan on reading or re-reading the others. I love Sherlock Holmes and Poe actually created the archetype figure of C. Auguste Dupin in "Murders". Cool stuff!

[Annie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfectly gothic.

Through this book I learned that Poe preceded Conan Doyle - I had incorrectly assumed that Poe knew of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and created a similar character of his own. Turns out Poe came first and the SH was inspired by Poe's Dupin!

I would say this combination of short stories of Poe amounts to 1/3 creepy cousin marriage stories, 1/3 provocative parables, 1/3 detective stories.

[João Paulo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Genious!

[Daniel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I put the public domain, Google Books version on my phone and used it in I-am-on-a-bus-and-have-nothing-to-read situations. The popular stories were good; the other ones, not so much.

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice collection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe.

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[Gilbert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great stories, especially the C. Auguste Dupin trio.

[Gr1972 · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 out of 5