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The Murders in the Rue Morgue: Classic Gothic Horror

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Classic Gothic Horror

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination." Two works that share some similarities predate Poe's stories, including Das Fraulein von Scuderi (1819) by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Zadig (1747) by Voltaire.

C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the...