<Li> On January 7, 1975, a radio - play version was broadcast on CBS Radio Mystery Theater . </Li> <Li> A made - for - TV movie, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, aired in 1986 . It was directed by Jeannot Szwarc and starred George C. Scott, Rebecca De Mornay, Ian McShane, and Val Kilmer . </Li> <Li> It has also been adapted as a video game by Big Fish Games for their "Dark Tales" franchise under the title "Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue". </Li> <Li> Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Gold Bug (1973), a simplified version by Robert James Dixson, was published by Regents Pub. Co . </Li>

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