Dark Reason and Lucid Madness

Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps most famous today for his tales of terror, but he is also widely credited with the origin and development of the modern detective story.
This collection includes The Gold Bug, one of Poe's stories of “logic and ratiocination”, forerunners of the modern detective story.
The other tales tell of horror, torture, and fear.
The cross-curricular section focuses on the combination of logical science with Gothic insight and fascination with dark mystery and explores Poe's influence on the authors of today's horror stories and horror movies.