The Devil in The Belfry
The Devil in The Belfry. An Extravaganza. What o’clock is it? — Old Saying Every body knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is — or, […]
A Descent into the Maelström
A Descent into the Maelström The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, […]
A Decided Loss
A Decided Loss – A Tale a la Blackwood O breathe not, &c. — Moore’s Melodies. The most notorious ill-fortune must, in the end, yield to the untiring courage of philosophy […]
The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion
The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion EIROS. Why do you call me Eiros? CHARMION. So henceforward will you always be called. You must forget, too, my earthly name, and speak to me as Charmion. […]
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
The Colloquy Of Monos And Una UNA. “Born again?” MONOS. Yes, fairest and best beloved Una, “born again.” These were the words upon whose mystical meaning I had so long pondered, […]
Bon-Bon
Bon-Bon — A Tale. “Notre Gulliver” — dit le Lord Bolingbroke — “a de telles fables.” — Voltaire. That Pierre Bon-Bon was a Restaurateur of uncommon qualifications, no man who, […]
The Black Cat
The Black Cat For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect […]
Murders in the Rue Morgue: Dupin Solves a Gruesome Murder
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), is the first detective story written by Edgar Allan Poe and is considered to be the first-ever story of the detective genre, In […]
Poe’s Tales of Detective Fiction
MURRAY ELLISON–Urban crime was an area of acute interest in the nineteenth century in America and Europe because the public feared that it was rampant and out of the control […]
Poe Has “Some Words With A Mummy”
An excerpt from Murray Ellison’s 2015 MA Thesis from Virginia Commonwealth University on Poe and 19th-Century Science © Poe’s tale, “Some Words with a Mummy” (1845) provides one of the […]
A Look at Poe’s “MS. Found in a Bottle”
Excerpt from Murray Ellison’s 2015 VCU M.A.Thesis on Poe and 19th-Century Science © “The captain’s gray hairs are records of the past, and his grayer eyes are Sybils of the […]
Poe’s Balloon Hoax – Part II
Written by Murray Ellison, 2015 As noted in Part I of this column, J. Harris was one of the many researchers who connected Locke’s “Moon Hoax” with Poe’s April 1844 […]