The Teller's Craft
Type detective short story (no tale-type number)
Poe’s narrator tells the Rue Morgue case once it is closed, yet gives its facts in the order he met them. Of 16 facts traced in the 1841 text, Dupin gives 12.
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"The Murders in the Rue Morgue, for Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and the Imagination,” Chicago, 1895-96" by Aubrey Beardsley — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue,_for_Edgar_Allan_Poe%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%9CTales_of_Mystery_and_the_Imagination,%E2%80%9D_Chicago,_1895-96_MET_DP-21095-001.jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
The Teller's Craft
Type frame story, a story that holds other stories (no tale-type number cited)
By Zotenberg’s 1888 account, the copyist of the manuscript Galland translated stopped in night 281, with Scheherazade still telling; her pardon is not in it.
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"Stories from the Arabian Nights (1907), colour plate of a rider on a flying horse" by Edmund Dulac — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:'As_he_descended,_the_daylight_in_which_hitherto_he_had_been_travelling_faded_from_view.'_(18412346383).jpg — Public domain in US (published London 1907); DE/FR (Edmund Dulac d. 1953, life+70, public domain from 1 January 2024)
The Teller's Craft
Type nursery tale printed by an author (no tale-type number cited)
Southey’s 1837 intruder is an unnamed old woman. Cundall’s 1849 preface says he made her a girl; of four texts checked, only Steel’s 1918 calls her Goldilocks.
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"De drie beren (titel op object)" by Anonymous — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:De_drie_beren_(titel_op_object),_RP-P-OB-205.807.jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/); modified: Cropped to the last of the eight panels (bottom right), keeping the picture and a margin of paper; the printed verse above and below is left out
The Teller's Craft
Type ATU 533, as classified by D. L. Ashliman
In the Grimms’ 1815 Goose Girl the princess confides in a tiled stove; in the 1857 text it is an iron one. Seven editions checked, with each repeated line.
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"The Goosegirl" by Arthur Rackham — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snowdrop-Rackham-135.jpg — Public domain in US (published New York: Dutton, 1920, per the Internet Archive record of the scanned copy; the plates first appeared in 1909); DE/FR (Arthur Rackham d. 1939, life+70)
