In one story, eight masqueraders dressed as these animals in costumes made of flax and tar are hoisted thirty feet upward by a chain affixed to a pulley and are burnt alive by a torch taken from a caryatid (CARE-yah-tid) .
In one story, eight masqueraders dressed as these animals in costumes made of flax and tar are hoisted thirty feet upward by a chain affixed to a pulley and are burnt alive by a torch taken from a caryatid (CARE-yah-tid) . The title vengeful dwarf murders a king and seven ministers costumed as these animals in the short story "Hop Frog." In another story, a "shrill voice," heard speaking a language like Spanish to a gruff Frenchman, is (*)  revealed to be one of these animals shrieking at the sailor whose ribbon it left on a lightning rod; in that story, the killer of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter is proven to be one of these creatures by C. Auguste Dupin  (see oh-GOOST doo-PAN) . For 10 points, name this species of great ape that commits the title crime in Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue."
In one story, eight masqueraders dressed as these animals in costumes made of flax and tar are hoisted thirty feet upward by a chain affixed to a pulley and are burnt alive by a torch taken from a caryatid (CARE-yah-tid) .
orangutan  [or  Pongo borneo ; or  Pongo pygmaeus ; prompt on  ape  until it is read; prompt on monkey ] 