For our reading of Poe's short stories, do not miss:

• Ligeia
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Purloined Letter
• The Cask of Amontillado

And don't miss Poe at the Morgan Library!

Some links for Richard III:

• Al Pacino's Looking for Richard at IMDB
• For a great treatment of history as mystery try The Daughter of Time by Joesphine Tey
• For a literary/historical perspective try Peter Saccio's Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama
• Game of Throne's Peter Dinklage as Richard: New York Mag article and NY Times review
• Article on the historical aspects, including a discussion of Richard's concerns about the Woodvilles, from The Daily Kos
• Historical context from the Richard III Society
• The DNA, the bones, and the car park from the BBC
• Looking at Richard: facial reconstruction from the BBC
• More on descendants and the family tree from the University of Leicester
• A pdf family tree of the Lancasters and the Yorks
• An overview of the War of the Roses