Rue Morgue

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Rue Morgue is a fictional Parisian street best known as the eerie setting of Edgar Allan Poe’s pioneering detective story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional street
literary location
appearsIn The Murders in the Rue Morgue
appearsInAdaptationOf film adaptations of The Murders in the Rue Morgue
radio adaptations of The Murders in the Rue Morgue
television adaptations of The Murders in the Rue Morgue
associatedWithAuthor Edgar Allan Poe
associatedWithCharacter C. Auguste Dupin
unnamed narrator of The Murders in the Rue Morgue
countryInFiction France
createdBy Edgar Allan Poe
fictionalLocationIn Paris
firstAppearanceDate 1841
firstAppearanceWork The Murders in the Rue Morgue
genreContext detective fiction
horror fiction
mystery fiction
hasAtmosphere claustrophobic urban setting
hasCrimeTypeContext locked-room mystery
hasFictionalBuilding apartment where the murders occur
hasMotiveContext apparently motiveless crime
hasReputationInFiction sinister place
hasThemeContext rational analysis vs. apparent impossibility
influenced development of crime fiction settings
inspiredWorks later detective fiction settings
languageOfWork English
literaryTradition Gothic fiction
locatedInFictionalCity Paris
mediumOfOrigin short story
narrativeFunction crime scene setting
notableFor being one of the earliest detective story settings
eerie and macabre atmosphere
originalPublicationCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
originalPublicationLanguage English
originalPublicationVenue Graham's Magazine
surface form: Graham’s Magazine
partOfWorkCanon C. Auguste Dupin stories
publicationContext 19th-century periodical literature
relatedWork The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
The Purloined Letter
settingOfEvent double murder in The Murders in the Rue Morgue
workContextAuthorNationality American

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