The Murders in the Rue Morgue, facsimile of the manuscript in the Drexel Institute.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Murders in the Rue Morgue, facsimile of the manuscript in the Drexel Institute.

Philadelphia:

George Barrie

[1895]

Not much more than fifty years past the initial publication of Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue, the importance of this work and, hence, the manuscript was apparent. Poe, in one story, created a new genre of literature.

From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson