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The Mystery of Marie Rogêt: A ‘mystery’ with no suspense, just 1hr of a supposed genius detailing his already completed deduction. Poe rambles for three dense pages about the circumstances where a body will float in water, does not even solve the murder: [For reasons we shall not specify, we have taken the liberty of here omitting from the MMSS]

— Jun 11, 2026 04:23PM

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I’M FREE!

— Jun 13, 2026 08:39AM

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Hop-Frog: I usually love an underdog story always but I think I’m just too woke for this one 😬

— Jun 13, 2026 08:27AM

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The Domain of Arnheim: Beautiful writing but very ornamental. This is really just a description of a garden.

— Jun 13, 2026 08:02AM

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The Cask of Amontillado: Simpler than the rest but one of the best! I’d read this one before but there’s a reason this one is so well known!

— Jun 13, 2026 07:45AM

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The Imp of the Perverse: This is barely a story. Over 2/3rds = just Poe musing on why people procrastinate or why they do bad and perverse acts with no character or plot.

— Jun 13, 2026 07:36AM

Bee is on page 283 of 369

The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether: This is a satire comedy and I *think* it’s trying to satirise inhumane treatment of the mentally ill ie. Poe is in favour of their dignity. But if that’s the case… why is most of the humour laughing at the ‘lunatics’?

— Jun 13, 2026 07:28AM

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The Purloined Letter: The best of the Dupin stories! Clever writing, could actually follow along with the mystery this time, plus it actually had a little bit of character within it!

— Jun 12, 2026 09:44AM