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Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective by Charles Prepolec, Paul Kane
myweereads's review
4.0
"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
Beyond Rue Morgue Further Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1st Detective is an anthology edited by Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec. It features the classic written by Edgar Allan Poe to begin with and as you read on different cases are linked to the infamous Detective Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin.
These stories allow the reader to explore Dupin’s legacy through mysterious and dark stories against evils of human and the unnatural kind. They lead us to his grandson, great-granddaughter and links between Poe, Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft.
Some of my favourites were:
The Sons Of Tammany by Mike Carey
The Unfathomed Darkness by Simon Clark
The Vanishing Assassin by Jonathan Maberry
The Gruesome Affair Of The Electric Blue Lightening by Joe R Lansdale
New Murders In The Rue Morgue by Clive Barker
Many of these turned quite dark and unsettling very quickly and the view on the family legacy was interesting to see. I enjoyed reading the varied situations Dupin was put in and how he handled himself and the case at hand.
An interesting anthology worth exploring.
Beyond Rue Morgue Further Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1st Detective is an anthology edited by Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec. It features the classic written by Edgar Allan Poe to begin with and as you read on different cases are linked to the infamous Detective Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin.
These stories allow the reader to explore Dupin’s legacy through mysterious and dark stories against evils of human and the unnatural kind. They lead us to his grandson, great-granddaughter and links between Poe, Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft.
Some of my favourites were:
The Sons Of Tammany by Mike Carey
The Unfathomed Darkness by Simon Clark
The Vanishing Assassin by Jonathan Maberry
The Gruesome Affair Of The Electric Blue Lightening by Joe R Lansdale
New Murders In The Rue Morgue by Clive Barker
Many of these turned quite dark and unsettling very quickly and the view on the family legacy was interesting to see. I enjoyed reading the varied situations Dupin was put in and how he handled himself and the case at hand.
An interesting anthology worth exploring.
thereaderred's review
4.0
After reading this collection I gained a newfound love for Dupin. Having read "Murders in the Rue Morgue" a year prior I was quite shocked as to how satisfyingly readable it still is, esepcially if you're into the old school classic mysteries in the Holmes tradition. However I seriously think that he is severely underutilised in the genre which he coincidentally helped create.
Sure there's countless Sherlock pastiches that are published like it's going out of style but Dupin has been unfarily neglected...not anymore.
Going into this I was mostly expecting some average stories with a few gems peppered along the way, was it like that? Well, yes and no.
Let me explain. Yes, in the sense that they follow on from or are inspired by Poe's famous creation but the stories were decent and each had their own unique aspects which made a lot of them slightly above average and regardless of genre each of them tapped into the chevalier's compelling quirkiness.
I don't really want to say which favourites I had because each one I read had something different I enjoyed, even thought there were some gems.
All I will say is that if you like mystery stories, perhaps with a little bit of genre blending. if you need to become au courant with the man who gave birth to the "world's first detective" then you'll probably dig this collection.
Sure there's countless Sherlock pastiches that are published like it's going out of style but Dupin has been unfarily neglected...not anymore.
Going into this I was mostly expecting some average stories with a few gems peppered along the way, was it like that? Well, yes and no.
Let me explain. Yes, in the sense that they follow on from or are inspired by Poe's famous creation but the stories were decent and each had their own unique aspects which made a lot of them slightly above average and regardless of genre each of them tapped into the chevalier's compelling quirkiness.
I don't really want to say which favourites I had because each one I read had something different I enjoyed, even thought there were some gems.
All I will say is that if you like mystery stories, perhaps with a little bit of genre blending. if you need to become au courant with the man who gave birth to the "world's first detective" then you'll probably dig this collection.
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