Murders in the Rue Morgue

Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue (p. 143)... 

Initially, the tales seem to construct Dupin as an unbiased observer, whose objectivity is guaranteed by his apparent aloofness from the social world in which crime occurs. In the early pages of The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the narrator portrays Dupin as a reclusive figure from an illustrious family who, by a variety of untoward events, had been reduced to such poverty that the energy of his character succumbed beneath it, and he ceased to bestir himself in the world, or to care for the retrieval of his fortunes. A victim rather than a manipulator of events, Dupin seems peculiarly without worldly power or concerns as the narrator remarks, he and Dupin escape to a time-eaten and grotesque mansion... in a retired and desolate portion... 

Shawn Rosenheim, Detective Fiction, Psychoanalysis, and the Anal)4 ic Sublime, in The American Pace of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Shawn Rosenheim and Stephen Rachman (Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), p. 161, points out that the description of the orangutan virtually reverses Cuvier s actual claims. See also Burton R. Pollin, Poe s Murders in the Rue Morgue The Ingenious Web Unravelled, in Studies in the American Renaissance 1977, ed. Joel Myerson (Boston Twayne, 1978), p. 2.53. 

The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories (Newbury Park, California Eternity Comics, 1989) includes its title story preceded by The Cask of Amontillado, and MS. Found in a Bottle. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories (Newbury Park, California Eternity Comics, 1988) includes its title story preceded by William Wilson and followed by The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar. These are reprints of earlier editions. 

American International Pictures made two other Poe films without Price The Premature Burial (with Ray Milland, 1962) and Murders in the Rue Morgue (with Jason Robards, 1971). Corman directed eight of the total thirteen AIP Poe films, seven of which starred Price. 

Poe accepts an editorial position with Graham s, to which he also contributes several tales The Colloquy of Monos and Una, The Descent into the Maelstrom, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and Never Bet the Devil Your Head. ... 

The tale is widely reprinted and also dramatized on the Philadelphia stage. In July William H. Graham issues The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe, which contains The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Man That Was Used Up, the first and only installment of a planned, serialized collection of Poe s stories. In November Poe delivers his first public lecture, Poets and Poetry of America, a means of income he would frequently resort to during the remainder of his life. 

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