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Conventionally, scholars considering E.A.Poe as a forerunner of a classic detective story rely on the so called “tales of ratiocination” and focus on the investigator/narrator-dyad as far as on the investigation as a rational procedure. In my lecture I refer to a wider range of Poe`s (mystery) tales in order to explore some less “rational” components of the detective fiction, e.g such thematic issues as exorbitant violence, obtaining and loosing of self control, combating spatial and psychical seclusion, and, furthermore, an elliptical narration and a strongly pronounced predetermination in the plot. All these items later have been inherited by the classic detective fiction of the “golden age”.