Annabelle, Poe, and Nordic Noir
5 min readJan 15, 2022
It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me.
This essay attempts to better understand the modern Nordic noir style of a detective novel by looking at For the Missing by Lina Bengtsdotter (Swedish title: Anabelle).
