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Before I read Leaving the Atocha Station, I read something else that mentioned how many characters in Poe’s stories draw the curtains during the day and talk in the dark, only going out into the world at night. Obviously this is a reference to “Murders in the Rue Morgue”, but I read about it second hand in a book I can’t remember anymore. Does anyone have any recollection of a novel that may have done this? I looked through the Atocha Station book but didn’t find it. Maybe Javier Marias, only I couldn’t find it in the book of his I was reading either (Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear)

(photo from the 1932 film version of the story starring Bela Lugosi)