Mademoiselle Bistouri  

"It is the poetic mystery that attracts Baudelaire. He said in his Mademoiselle Bistouri-. 'I am passionately fond of a mystery, because I am always in hopes of unravelling it.' Poe, too, hopes to unravel his mystery, but in a different sense from Baudelaire. For Poe ' mystery ' means a crime of which the perpetrator is unknown, and whom the novelist has to discover. The offspring of Poe in this region is Sherlock Holmes. In the same way the abstract mystery – the mystery of the universe – has no hold on Poe. Spiritual philosophy is as absent from his work as the didactic aim. Yet the works of his two greatest disciples, Baudelaire and Villiers de l'Isle Adam, are full of searchings into these very problems." --The Influence of Baudelaire in France and England (1913) by Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-Milnes