Short story

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. – Sir Thomas Browne The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, …

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The Lighthouse

The first thing that stands out to most readers of this work is that it appears to be a fragment. It is almost certainly the last piece of fiction that Edgar Allen Poe wrote. One biographer, Kenneth Silverman, believes that Poe began The Lighthouse within six months of his death in October, 1849. Based on …

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