A review by ullsi
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

4.0

It took me a little while to get into Poe’s long-winded and punctuation-filled sentences, but when I did, I understood why his stories became - and have stayed - so popular. He is great at creating eerie atmospheres in just a few pages, and many of the horror elements are disturbing even though they were written almost 200 years ago. I liked the horror stories better than the detective mysteries since the latter often resulted in long, braggy monologues, but it was fun to read early examples of this type of story.