Rue Morgue

Murder mystery address

Rue Morgue is French for "morgue street" and entered English through Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," widely considered the first modern detective fiction.

The phrase now evokes gothic horror and gruesome crime scenes: The abandoned warehouse had a real Rue Morgue atmosphere.

PoeAmerican gothic writer's surname
murderDeliberate unlawful killing
murder mysteryFiction about solving killings
detectiveProfessional crime investigator
locked roomEnclosed space, secured shut

orangutan · wild beast · Paris · gaslit streets · macabre · gothic · horror · mystery · corpse · chimney · grotesque · bloodshed · darkness · magazine · crime · Victorian · raven · thriller

Opposites

literary genre origin

Rue MorguePemberley

Fictional aristocratic mansion

Green Gables · Arcadia · Shangri-La · Garden of Eden · Walden Pond

atmosphere/mood

Rue MorgueChamps-Élysées

Iconic Parisian boulevard

Easy Street · Elysian Fields · Rainbow Road

association with death

Rue Morguematernity ward

Hospital section for childbirth

nursery · fountain of youth · delivery room · cradle · birth canal

Family

rue, rues, rued, ruing, rueful, ruefully, ruefulness, morgue, morgues

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