"ah well. most of them are the same in that someone's always killing someone and sealing them up in something, only to have some finite detail spoil their perfect crime (tell tale heart, the black cat, house of usher, a few poems, etc) i dunno. absinthe sounds really neat, but if the only literary advantage it has is thinking up claustrophobic death scenarios; then the reports on it are greatly exaggerated" Adam Theriault.

This section  contains the twenty four full page illustrations, plus vignettes, that Harry Clarke prepared for an edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination". As can be imagined, from the example above, Clarke's phantasmogorical symbolist style is a perfect complement to Poe's stories. There is a brief pen portrait of Harry Clarke in the Biographies section of this site. To access the picture click on the title, below. To save the picture, right-click on it. To return to this page click the "Back" button of your browser.