“I worked from 2pm – 11pm at a gas station In one of the nicer cities around here and I had a gentlemen look me in the eyes and ask if I’m enjoying my last day on earth? Walked away before I could answer.” - atStevens98 “I’m still here” To this day, I have no idea who it was that knocked and waved.” - shanster925 Last day on earth They swore up and down it wasn’t either of them, and there was no way one of them would have had time to get downstairs and unmask before getting on the couch. Thinking it was my brother or his friend I mouthed “good one” and gave the person the finger and they walked away.Īs soon as they left I went downstairs to give them shit, and to my surprise and dismay… They were both sitting on the couch playing PlayStation. Standing at the door, and waving was a person (could not tell sex or age) wearing a Halloween pig mask.
I looked up, expecting my brother or his friend (the basement had a door that lead to the back deck as well.) I heard a knock on the patio door, which startled me. On one particular night, my brother had a friend over and they were downstairs doing whatever and I was at the dining room table on the laptop.Īs I was wrapped up in my writing, I didn’t pay much attention to my surroundings. My brother and I would fight over the desktop (that’s where Diablo 2 was installed!) so I would use the laptop to write music. When I was about 14, we only had one desktop computer and one laptop for the family. The dining room had patio doors that lead out to the back and we would have BBQs and such back there. “Our old house was on a corner, and in lieu of a backyard had a side yard, with a small deck that wrapped around the back. One of a few weird things to happen growing up.” - bables08 Pig mask Scared the shit out of me so I froze, let it register for a few seconds, then calmly closed everything and went back to my room to hide until daylight. I also didn’t hear them open in the time I was there. They were all closed when I went into the kitchen, and there was no way anyone could have snuck in and done it because I was home alone. Cleaned up and turned around and every single cupboard door and cutlery drawer were open. Nearly forty-five years after Poe’s death, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle popularized the detective story when he created Sherlock Holmes, a character with peculiarities similar to Poe’s Dupin.“Making toast late one night facing the kitchen bench eating for a good 5-10mins. Dupin was featured in three of Poe’s stories, establishing another feature of the detective genre–the recurring character. Dupin has keen powers of observation and points out to his companion, who narrates, that “the necessary knowledge is of what to observe.” Poe makes clues available throughout the story, thereby offering the reader an opportunity to solve the mystery. Auguste Dupin is a reclusive character who is contacted by the police when they are unable to solve the crime.
In “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe outlined elements that future writers would adapt and develop further. I do not mean to say that they are not ingenious-but people think them more ingenious than they are-on account of their method and air of method.” “These tales of ratiocination owe most of their popularity to being something in a new key. In 1846, Poe wrote to a friend about the popularity of what he called his "tales of ratiocination," meaning tales of logical reasoning: Edgar Allan Poe created a new literary genre when he wrote “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Although mysteries were not a new literary form, Poe was the first to introduce a character that solved the mystery by analyzing the facts of the case.