Spooky October Media Experiences

Recent TV and book recs

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Links:

• “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” by Edgar Allan Poe (1841) [Wikipedia]

• Here’s the version I listened to [Greatest Audiobooks/YouTube], and here’s the story’s full text [PoeStories].

• Shedunnit podcast, Episode 47: “Locked Room.”

• “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Google Image Search results. (Don’t click if you don’t want to spoil it!)

• Next up for me are “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” (I’m listening to this one, although halfway through the story is losing me) and “The Purloined Letter.”

• Related: “The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe.” [Smithsonian] (“Was the famous author killed from a beating? From carbon monoxide poisoning? From alcohol withdrawal? Here are the top nine theories.”)

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Other crime- and darkness-adjacent media recs:

• I just finished the first season of British crime drama “Unforgotten” (originally a PBS series) and plan to start the second shortly. [Season One, on Amazon Prime]

• I’m enjoying/feeling unsettled by the book The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Johnson (1952). [Wikipedia]

• And it’s not so dark (or is it?), but I loved the documentary My Octopus Teacher, on Netflix. (Here’s a YouTube trailer.)

• “20 Under-sung Crime Shows to Binge-Watch” [The Atlantic]