In The Rue Morgue

What Is American Gothic? - America in Class

while the detective stories, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," also incorporate elements of fantastic excess. A persistent mocking humor is to be found in these as well as his more overtly comic tales, reminiscent of the work of Washington Irving (1783— 1859), if more savage and without Irving's more comfortable end-of-story recuperations.

  Meguro, In the rue morgue