Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Death and Dementia
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
A murderer driven to the edge by the sound of his victim's still-beating heart…
A mental institution run by someone other than its staff…
A mysterious box aboard a ship with a ghastly secret…
And the hypnotist's stare that could, perhaps, paralyze even death…
Strap into your straitjacket, fasten it tight, and brace yourself! For within these pages are stories of lost love, lost ways… and lost minds. Gris Grimly's mysterious, morbid, macabre illustrations capture four Poe classics, including perennial favourite, The Tell Tale Heart, with an unmatchable ghoulish charm.
Read them if you dare ~ and celebrate, in true Poe style, the two hundredth anniversary of the birth ofthe great Master of the Macabre.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This graphic novel style companion to Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness contains four condensed versions of classic Poe stories. Grimly's caricatured faces capture the macabre soul of Poe's work, while the text incorporates significant moments from the original works. When the speaker in The Tell-Tale Heart declares, "I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever," he is rendered ghoulishly, as three panels close in on his own bulging, horror-struck eye. The essence of Poe with the accessibility and artistry of Grimly's gruesome images make it a sound introduction to the legendary writer though, as with much of Poe's work, this collection is not for the timid. Ages 11 up.
