The Murders in the Rue Morgue Allusions

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)

Historical References

• Dr. John Pringle Nichol, astronomer (21)
• François Vidocq, detective (52)
• Georges Cuvier, zoologist and paleontologist (91, 93)

Pop Culture References

• Laverna, Roman goddess (123)