The Murders in the Rue Morgue Allusions & Cultural References

When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.

Literary and Philosophical References

Sir Thomas Browne, "Hydriotaphia. Urn-Burial; or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk" (epigraph)
Edmond Hoyle, Hoyle's Rules of Games (2)
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Xerxes (15)
Epicurus (21, 24)
Ovid, Fasti (24)
Molière, The Bourgeois Gentleman ("Monsieur Jourdain"; 52)
Jean Jacques Rousseau, La Nouvelle Héloise (123)