The Murder on Morgue Street

A classic of American romanticism, the author of iconic «horror stories» Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) is also famous as one of the founders of the detective genre. His «The Murder on Morgue Street» is considered the very first detective story in history. This book contains seven truly eerie, astonishing, blood-curdling plots. And the scariest part is that, in the majority of them, there is no mysticism: bloody crimes are the work of someone's hands, cruel killers evade responsibility and silently follow their unsuspecting victims down the shadowy streets.