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Commentary:
Characters:
●(narrator) - Under development.
Setting:
Location - Under development.
Date - Under development.
Summary:
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Reading and Reference Texts:
Reading copy:
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — reading copy
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Historical Texts:
Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
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Text-01 — “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — 1841 — (There are
no known draft manuscripts or scratch notes reflecting the original effort of composition. The surviving
manuscript shows that parts of the pages were cut and pasted from earlier drafts, with additional changes made on
the final form of that text.)
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Text-02 — “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — 1841
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Text-02a — “The Murders in the Rue
>>Trianon-Bas<< Morgue” — early 1841 — “Johnston” manuscript
— (Mabbott text A) (This is the faircopy manuscript that Poe prepared for publication. J. M.
Johnston was an apprentice at the firm of Barrett and Thrasher, which was at No. 33 Carter's Alley in
Philadelphia. This firm was responsible for typesetting material for Graham's Magazine, in which
the story first appeared. According to Johnston, “the revised proof [was] read in the Saturday
Evening Post Office,” the Post and Graham's Magazine both being owned by George
R. Graham. As was typical of the process, the manuscript was thrown in a wastebasket after the text had been
set in type. Johnston asked for permission to retrieve the handwritten pages, and he kept them in his
possession until July 1881, when he appears to have sold the manuscript to George W. Childs. When Childs died
in 1894, the manuscript was left, with much other literary material, to the Drexel Institute, where it
remained for several decades. A facsimile was printed by George Barrie in 1895. (The printing is not dated,
but the publisher became George Barrie and Son about the beginning of 1896.) On October 17-18, 1944, a large
portion of the Drexel collection, including Poe's manuscript, was sold at auction. It was purchased by
Richard Gimbel for $34,000, through the Philadelphia firm of Charles Sessler. Gimbel, who died in 1970,
donated the bulk of his Poe collection to the Free Library of Philadelphia in his will, which was finally
executed in 1974.)
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Text-02b — “The Murders in the Rue
Morgue” — April 1841 — Graham's — (Mabbott text B)
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Text-03 — “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — 1842-1843
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Text-03a — “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — 1842 —
TGAPP (manuscript of title only) — (The tale is listed in Poe's handwritten table of
contents, but the text itself no longer survives. It was probably a modified version of the printed text from
Graham's Magazine, and is presumably recorded, with perhaps a few additional changes made in
proof, in Text-04)
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Text-03b — “The Murders in the Rue
Morgue” — 1843 — PRRMS — (Mabbott text C) (In a letter of February 24, 1845 to R. W. Griswold, Poe says that he was
sending copies of “ ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ and ‘The Man that was used
up’ ” for possible inclusion in a new edition of The Prose Writers of America. The
coincidence of the tales makes if likely that Poe sent him a copy of this printing. It may be interesting to
note that, in the same letter, Poe says that he would “prefer having in the ‘Gold Bug’ to
the ‘Murders in the R. M’, but have not a copy just now.”)
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Text-04 — “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — 1843-1849
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Text-04a — “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — 1843-1845 —
(a presumed revised version of text-04, in anticipation of the new edition in Tales. This version was
probably made on pages of a copy of PRRMS. No such revised copy has survived, but the revisions are
presumably reflected in text-06.)
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Text-04b — “The Murders in the Rue
Morgue” — 1845 — TALES — (Mabbott text D) (For Griswold's1850 reprinting of this text, see the entry below, under reprints.)
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Text-04c — “The Murders in the Rue
Morgue” — 1845-1849 — TALES-JLG — manuscript revisions in “J. L.
Graham” copy of TALES, with two verbal changes — (Mabbott text E — This is
Mabbott's copy-text)
Reprints:
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
— 1850 — WORKS — (Mabbott text F) (Griswold reprints from the stereotype plates of
Text-04b.)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — 1852 — Tales and Sketches: to
which is added The Raven: A Poem, London, George Routledge & Co., pp. 96-126
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — 1852 — Tales of Mystery and
Imagination and Humour; and Poems, London: Henry Vizetelly (An undated edition appears about the same time,
published by Charles H. Clark and Samuel Orchart Beeton, and their name appears as publisher for the second
series), first series pp. 80-121. (with two woodcut illustrations)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — December 1854 - January 1855 —
Dansville Herald (Dansville, NY) (Information for this entry was provided to the Poe Society by Ton
Fafianie in an e-mail dated June 18, 2021, supplemented by information supplied by Tom Tryniski)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — December 27, 1854 — Dansville
Herald (Dansville, NY) vol. V, no. 33, p. 1, cols. 2-7 (acknowledged as by Edgar Allan Poe)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — January 3, 1855 — Dansville
Herald (Dansville, NY) vol. V, no. 34, p. 1, cols. 2-6 (acknowledged as by Edgar Allan Poe)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — January 17, 1855 — Dansville
Herald (Dansville, NY) vol. V, no. 36, p. 1, cols. 2-4 (acknowledged as by Edgar Allan Poe)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan
Poe, first series (New York: W. J. Widdleton), pp. 178-212 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856
edition of Poe'sWorks. It was reprinted several times.)
●“The Murders in the Rue
Morgue” — 1874 — Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram, vol. 1, pp. 404-441
(This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — 1875 — Little Classics, vol.
III: Tragedy, Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. (This 18 volume series, edited by Rossiter Johnson,
contains selections from many authors, including Poe, Dickens, and Hawthorne. Each volume is theoretically
comprised around a different theme.)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — October 7, 1888 — New York
Evening Sun (New York, NY), vol. LVI, no. 37, p. 8, cols. 1-7 (full page) (The headline reads: “IN THE
RUE MORGUE. / Poe's Story of the Famous Murders Committed There. / A WONDERFUL DETECTIVE STORY / Is it a
Prophecy of London's Whitechapel Murders?”) (A straight item about the Whitechapel Murders appears on
p. 1 of the same issue. At least five of the Whitechapel Murders have since been attributed to Jack the Ripper, by
whose name they are now more commonly known.)
●“In the Rue Morgue” — October 1888 — Elmira Morning Telegram
(Elmira, NY) (The selection and connection with the Whitechapel Murders was almost certainly taken from the New
York Sun as the heading essentially copies that used by the earlier publication. On p. 4 of the October 14,
1888 issue, appears the following short note: “The shocking features of the Whitechapel butcheries recall in
a certain undefinable [[indefinable]] fashion Poe's story of ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue.’ As
they have been unfolded day after day by the press they have presented no greater actuality than did the crimes
that Poe's brain conceived when they first reached the public. The identity that they hold in common with
this great masterpiece of fiction lies in the element of mystery which distinguishes them. It looks, too, as if
some miracle of the detectives’ art, such as Poe found this tale upon, would be needed to unearth the
Whitechapel horror. We trust it may not be wanting. But, in the meantime, everybody should read Poe's story.
Those who have read it before should read it again, and those to whom it is new can never sufficiently thank us
for having it before them on the second page this morning. the concluding portion will be printed next
week.”)
●“In the Rue Morgue” — October 14, 1888 — Elmira Morning
Telegram (Elmira, NY) vol. X, no. 25, p. 2, cols. 1-5
●“In the Rue Morgue” — October 21, 1888 — Elmira Morning
Telegram (Elmira, NY) vol. X, no. 25, p. 2, cols. 1-5
●“The Rue Morgue” — Oct-Nov. 1888 — Cambridge Chronicle
(Cambridge, MA) (Substantially repeating the material from the Elmira Telegram, the prefatory note read:
“The MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE. / The shocking features of the Whitechapel butcheries recall in a certain
undefinable [[indefinable]] fashion Poe's story of ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue.’ As they have
been unfolded day after day by the press they have presented no greater actuality than did the crimes that
Poe's brain conceived when they first reached the public. The identity that they hold in common with this
great masterpiece of fiction lies in the element of mystery which distinguishes them. It looks, too, as if some
miracle of the detective's art, such as Poe found this tale upon, would be needed to unearth the Whitechapel
horror. We trust it may not be wanting. But, in the meantime, everybody should read Poe's story.” The
heading reads: “THE RUE MORGUE. / Edgar Allan Poe's Story of the Murders There. / [[horizontal rule]] /
A FAMOUS STORY OF BLOOD. / [[horizontal rule]] / It is recalled by the Terrible Carnival of Crime Lately Enacted
by a Human Fiend in the Slums of Whitechapel, London.” The note and heading are repeated for both
installments.)
●“The Rue Morgue” — October 27, 1888 — Cambridge Chronicle
(Cambridge, MA) vol. 43, no. 2228, p. 9, cols. 1-3
●“The Rue Morgue” — November 3, 1888 — Cambridge Chronicle
(Cambridge, MA) vol. 43, no. 2229, p. 9, cols. 1-3
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — October 28, 1888 — Patterson
Sunday Call (Patterson, NJ), vol. 3, no. 52, supplement, pp. 2-3 (the full story appears across two facing
pages)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — November 30, 1888 — Middlebury
Register (Middlebury, VT), vol. LIII, no. 48, p. 3 (presumably continued in subsequent issues)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — November 7, 1888 — Atchison Daily
Globe (Atchison, KS) (this entry provided by John Gruesser in an e-mail to the Poe Society, Nov. 14, 2016)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — November 20, 1888 — Aberdeen
Daily News (Aberdeen, SD) (pp. 6-7) (this item is noted by George Monteiro, “Fugitive Reprints,”
E. A. Poe Review, Fall 2010, p. 162.)
●“The Rue Morgue” — January 1889 — Steuben Courier (Bath, NY)
●“The Rue Morgue” — January 4, 1889 — Steuben Courier (Bath,
NY) vol. XLVI, no. 21, p. 1, cols. 3-5
●“The Rue Morgue” — January 11, 1889 — Steuben Courier
(Bath, NY) vol. XLVI, no. 22, p. 1, cols. 3-6
●“The Rue Morgue” — January 18, 1889 — Steuben Courier
(Bath, NY) vol. XLVI, no. 23, p. 1, cols. 3-6
●“Murders in the Rue Morgue” — January 20, 1894 — Philadelphia
Inquirer (noted as “The Most Remarkable Story of Its Kind Ever Written”) (Front page, with an
illustration) (this item is noted by George Monteiro as being for January 20 and 21, 1894, “Fugitive
Reprints,” E. A. Poe Review, Fall 2010, p. 162.)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — November 19, 1902 — Evening
Star (Washington, DC) (begins on p. 17)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — April 3 and 4, 1911 — Kansas City
Star (p. 5) (this item is noted by George Monteiro, “Fugitive Reprints,” E. A. Poe
Review, Fall 2010, p. 162.)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — September 1916 — The Fra: For
Philistines and Roycrofters (East Aurora, NY), Vol. XVII, no. 6 (Roycroft was an arts and crafts community
founded in 1895 by Elbert Hubbard in East Aurora. Hubbard was also the publisher of the magazine, which was
continued by his son after Hubbard and his wife were killed aboard the RMS Lusitania in 1915. Hubbard
himself was an anarchist and socialist. At some point, he began to call himself Fra Elbertus.)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — January 1934 — Golden Book
Magazine (This issue contains the “Six Favorite Short Stories” of its guest editor, Irving S.
Cobb (1876-1944), a Kentucky humorist and author of at least 300 short stories and 60 books.)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
●“The Murders in the Rue
Morgue” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales, eds. E. C. Stedman
and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (3:53-98)
●“The Murders in the Rue
Morgue” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales III, ed. J. A.
Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (4:146-192, and 4:288-306)
●“The Murders in the Rue
Morgue” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches
I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:521-574)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry
and Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 397-431
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — 2004 — The Selected Writings of
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. G. R. Thompson (New York: W. W. Norton & Co.), pp. 239-266
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Comparative and Study Texts:
Instream Comparative and Study Texts:
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
— Study Text (revisions in the “Johnston” manuscript)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
— Comparative Text (“Johnston” MS and GM)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
— Comparative Text (GM and PRRMS)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
— Comparative Text (PRRMS and TALES)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
— Study Text (TALES-JLG)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
— Comparative Text (WORKS-1850 and WORKS-1855)
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Associated Material and Special Versions:
Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:
●“Un meurtre sans exemple dans les fastes de la justice” — La
Quotidienne (French translation signed “G. B.,” for Gustave Brunet. H&C says
translation is by “G. E.,” apparently as a typographical error.)
●“Un meurtre sans exemple dans les fastes de la justice” — Part I
(June 11, 1846)
●“Un meurtre sans exemple dans les fastes de la justice” — Part II
(June 12, 1846)
●“Un meurtre sans exemple dans les fastes de la justice” — Part III
(June 13, 1846)
●“Une sanglante énigme” — October 12, 1846 — Le
Commerce (French translation signed “O.N.” H&C, 1943, give the translator as “Old
Nick,” noting his real name as E. D. Forgues, p. 276.)
●“L‘Assassinat de la Rue Morgue” — January 31, 1847 — La
Démocratie Pacifique (French translation signed “Isabelle Meunier”)
●“Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
●“Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue” — February 25 - March 7, 1855
— Le Pays
●“Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue” — Part I — February 25,
1855
●“Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue” — Part II — February
26, 1855
●“Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue” — Part III — March 1,
1855
●“Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue” — Part IV — March 2,
1855
●“Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue” — Part V — March 3,
1855
●“Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue” — Part VI — March 5,
1855
●“Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue” — Part VII — March 6,
1855
●“Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue” — Part VIII — March 7,
1855
●“Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue” — 1856 — Histoires
extraordinaires, Paris: Michel Lévy frères
●“Doble Asesinato [Double Murder]” — 1858 — Newspaper of
Barcelona (Spanish translation)
●“[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]” — 1860 — included in “library
of fiction” (Swedish translation, noted by Anderson, p. 53, described as a “cheap and ephemeral”
edition)
●“[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]” — before 1868 (Unidentified Danish
translation noted by Anderson, p. 15)
●“[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]” — 1868 — Phantastiske
Fortaellinger [Fantastic Tales] (Copenhagen) (Danish translation by Robert Watt, noted by
Anderson, p. 15)
●“Les Deux Assassinats de la Rue Morgue” — April 4-25, 1874 —
Musée Universel (Paris) vol. 2, semester 2 (French translation by Paul Cézano) (4
weekly installments. There are two illustrations, designed by Daniel Vierge and engraved in wood by Fortuné
Méaulle, pp. 41 and 73) (a copy of this magazine is in the Ingram Collection, University of VA) (An
introductory note, translated by Ton Fafianie, reads: “We start the publication of the works of Edgar Poe
with the two Murders of [sic] the Rue Morgue, because this story of forty pages shares more than one affinity with
our most popular novels, that were in a way engendered by it. Our readers may see for themselves at which point
the powerful genius of Poe has alimented our contemporary literature. Dupin, that amazing creation of the American
author, has been known for about twenty [sic] years to the public under different names: he is Monsieur Lecoq
— he is to be found in all the work of Gaboriau, and also a character for a great many novel writers of note
who have lately excited their readers. We would like to render the work as a whole, including the dissertation, at
the beginning, perhaps somewhat long-winding for those who are wary to discern the train of thoughts emerging from
the author: not to include it, however, would involve an attack at full speed against the passion felt by
Americans for the game of checkers, and also against a new sampling of philosophy.”)
●“Les Deux Assassinats de la Rue Morgue” — April 4, 1874 — pp.
39-44
●“Les Deux Assassinats de la Rue Morgue” — April 11, 1874 — pp.
54-58
●“Les Deux Assassinats de la Rue Morgue” — April 18, 1874 — pp.
70-75
●“Les Deux Assassinats de la Rue Morgue” — April 25, 1874 — pp.
86-91
●“Doppio Assassinio nella via Morgue” — 1876 — Racconti
Incredibili, Milano, Italy: Tipografia Editrice Lombarda (Italian translation, with several
illustrations)
●“[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]” — 1881 — Underliga historier
(Stockholm) (Swedish translation, noted by Anderson, p. 54)
●“[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]” — 1882 — Valda noveller
(Stockholm) (Swedish translation, noted by Anderson, p. 54)
●“Les assassinate de la rue Morgue” — 1885 — Oeuvres Choisies
d‘Edgar Pöe, Paris: A. Hennuyer (French translation by William L. Hughes)
●“[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]” — December 10, 23, 27 and 30, 1888 —
Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese translation by Aeba Koson)
●“Der gweifache Mord in der Rue Morgue” — 1890 — Seltsame
Gesdichten, Stuttgart: Spemann (Germanh translation by Alfred Mürenberg)
●“Le Double Assassinate de la Rue Morge” — 1904 — Le Système
du Docteur Goudron et du Professeur Plume, Paris: Jules Rouff (French translation by Léonora C.
Herbert
●“De Moorden in de Rue Morgue” — about 1930 — Fantastische
Vertellingen van Edgar Allan Poe, Haarlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon (Dutch translation by Machiel
Elias Barentz, with elaborate illustrations by Albert Hahn, somewhat reminiscent of those by Harry Clarke)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — November 29, 1942 — a radio show
broadcast on The Inner Sanctum show, with Peter Lorre. (As was often the case with dramatic presentations
of Poe's works, the story has been modified.)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — January 2, 1944 — a radio show
broadcast on NBC'sThe Weird Circle show. (This episode is available on CD as part of a 6-CD set of
“Smithsonian Legendary Performers,” issued in 2004. As was often the case with dramatic presentations
of Poe's works, the story has been modified.)
●“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — July 1944 — Classics
Illustrated (number 21) (a comic-book) (printed with “The Sign of Four” by A. C. Doyle and
“The Flayed Hand” by G. De Maupassant. Apparently reprinted in 1953. The original sale price was 15
cents.)
●“Dark Tales: The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — Dec. 2009 — (Big Fish
Games. A "hidden-object" computer game. There is a standard and a collector's version. The collector's
version was issued first, by a few weeks. The game, which usurps Poe's Dupin character but really has very
little to do with Poe's story, includes references to other Poe tales, including The Black Cat. The game is
rated “T” for teen.)
●“The Crimes of Morgue Street” — about 2010 (undated) —
Mickey's Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Milan: Disney (part I, Literary Classics, no. 23) (A comic-strip
adaptation of Poe's tale, with Mickey Mouse as Edgar Allan Mouse, the narrator, and rather unexpectedly cast
as Dupin, Goofy. The other story in this volume is “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Translations were
also published in Italian, Spanish, German, Finnish, and Danish.)
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Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.
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