Uh, talk, talk about the, uh, the History of Mystery because Poe is considered, uh, to be the, I guess, the founding father of what we call the modern mystery, uh, format.

[lips smack] Yeah, it's, I, it is pretty amazing.

A lot of people, obviously they know Poe for poetry, they know Poe for those, uh, uh, fantastic horror stories that, uh, everybody gets excited about, The Tell-Tale Heart and those kinds of things.

But Poe, uh, also is the inventor of the detective story.

So it's not that there were no such things as mysteries before there was an Edgar Allan Poe, but Poe is the first in American li- in, in English literature to create a character at the heart of a story whose job it is to solve that mystery by step-by-step process, um, observation, it's called ratiocination.

Uh, and his tales, um, um, depicting this process, Poe is the inventor of that.

He's the blueprint.

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