"Tales of Ratiocination."

The first modern

Detective Story

was published,

on this date,

in

Graham's Magazine

in the year of 1841.

It was written by one of my first literary heroes,

Edgar Allan Poe.

The story he published was,

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

Poe referred to it as one of his

"Tales of Ratiocination."

The word

Ratiocination

is sounded out a lot different then you would think by its spelling.

(rash-ee-os-uh-ney-shuhn)

Its meaning?

The process of logical reasoning.

Dare I say,

his

Ratiocination Stories

where a precursor to the

Sherlock Holmes 

sagas.

There are two stories that predate Poe's story,

 Das Fräulein von Scuderi 

by

E. T. A. Hoffmann

and

Zadig

by

Voltaire.

Yet Poe is credited with bringing the genre to the mainstream reader.

I wonder if someone is still leaving the bottle of

Cognac

at his grave stone every year?

A toast,

to the man who wrote stories that scared me so much as a young boy,

that I held a flashlight next to my bed for three years!

Man,
that is some good stuff!

This is,

Going To Take Another Sip In His Honor,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Poe isn’t for everyone. He’s too heady a draft for that. He may not be for you. But there are secrets to appreciating Poe, and I shall let you in on two of the most important ones: read him aloud and alone!”

- Neil Gaiman -

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