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Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective by Charles Prepolec, Paul Kane
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.