An author described the murder of 8 men dressed as these animals by the title jester in the story “Hop-Frog.” For 10 points each:
[10h] In another story by that author, it is revealed that the deaths of Madame L’Espanaye (“less-pah-NYE”) and her daughter were caused by one of what animals?
ANSWER: orangutans [or ourang-outangs; accept Pongo; prompt on great apes or primates; reject “monkeys”]
[10e] C. Auguste Dupin deduces the orangutan’s guilt in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” a short story by this author. This author also described Fortunato’s one-way trip into a wine cellar in “The Cask of Amontillado.”
ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe
[10m] In another Poe story, a man with this surname becomes increasingly agitated while the narrator reads him The Mad Trist. That story ends with Madeline, a woman with this surname, scaring her brother Roderick to death.
ANSWER: Usher [accept Roderick Usher or Madeline Usher; accept “The Fall of the House of Usher”]
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