Selección Terror: Rue Morgue, 13

Rué Morgue, 13 by Curtis Garland is a Gothic mystery set in 1890s Paris. The novella follows Peter Munro, an English visitor who, after a night of drinking with two women—Yvette and Denise—in Montmartre, becomes obsessed with finding a mysterious street and a woman named Suzanne Du Marier. The narrative begins with Munro's desperate, years-long search through Paris's back streets and quarters, following clues from a cryptic night he can barely remember. He has squandered his fortune, lost respectable lodgings, and deteriorated physically, wandering nightly along the Seine. The story alludes to Edgar Allan Poe's fictional "Rue Morgue," suggesting Munro's quarry may exist only in the haze of alcohol and obsession, or perhaps in a supernatural realm beyond the ordinary Paris map.