When Edgar Allan Poe first introduced the world to C. Auguste Dupin, he hit on a winning formula. Dupin was Sherlock Holmes before Sherlock Holmes, a genius detective who first appeared in “The ...

Our latest spooky obsession is Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher, which tells the haunting tale of Roderick Usher, and his six children who have all mysteriously died by the series premiere.

With his pipe, deerstalker hat and formidable "methods," Sherlock Holmes may be the most recognizable face of the Victorian mystery story. But how does he stack up against Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste ...

Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841, with the first of his tales involving the French investigator C. Auguste Dupin. The premise of Karen Lee Street’s series of ...

As soon as The Fall of the House of Usher starts, Netflix viewers are thrown right into a murder mystery, an intense court case and the hunt for a traitorous informant who threatens to tear down the ...

"A tree, you say?" Auguste Dupin asked. We were sitting in meditation in his little back library at No. 33 Rue Dunot. Dupin, the famous, fictional detective created by Edgar Allen Poe, was meditating, ...

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