He visited "The Turk" in advance of his analysis of the automaton titled "Maelzel's (**) Chess-Player," which proposed an incorrect theory of its working.
This author's story of Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic in a gas-powered balloon was a hoax that he got published in the New York Sun. He visited "The Turk" in advance of his analysis of the automaton titled "Maelzel's (**) Chess-Player," which proposed an incorrect theory of its working. The figure of a horse's head is made by the smoke above the title character's burning castle after he has plunged into it on a "demonic steed" in his first published fictional work, the story "Metzgerstein." Kant is referred to as a Dutchman and a disciple of the Turkish thinker Aries (*) Tottle in a letter found in a bottle in this man's potentially satiric attempt at a cosmology, Eureka. The unnamed narrator overwhelming worry that he could incriminate himself drives him to admit his murder of a man by using a poison candle in this man's story "The Imp of the Perverse." Known for his emphasis on his characters' ratiocination, for 10 points, name this author of "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue."
This author's story of Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic in a gas-powered balloon was a hoax that he got published in the New York Sun.
Edgar Allan Poe