“The Mystery of Marie Rôget” was the most challenging story for me to read in this collection, not only because of its unbelievable length compared to Poe’s other stories, but also because it reads more like a murder analysis, an essay on detective Dupin’s investigation into the murder of Marie Rogêt, rather than a murder story with life and progression. Other stories I didn’t know before, and it was such an opportunity to get to read “The Spectacles” – a comedy tale among the horror stories that Poe wrote :D, “Berenice”, as well as “The Mystery of Marie Rôget” and “The Purloined Letter” – the two detective stories in Poe’s trilogy of detective stories, along with “The Murder in Rue Morgue”. And it was great to experience these stories again, this time with the original versions.
Some other stories I have been familiar with from their retold versions in various Oxford Bookworms books that I read in the past, such as “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Gold Bug”, “The Oval Portrait” and “The Oblong Box”. This collection of 20 poems and tales from the master of horror Edgar Allan Poe is really the ideal read for Halloween! I have read many tales in this collection before, including Poe’s famous stories “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Black Cat”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Masque of the Red Death”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “Hop-Frog”.
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