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 ...

Poe also published some of his most famous and iconic works in the city, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Gold-Bug. Poe changed residences ...