Poe: Stories and Poems (Graphic Novel)

By Gareth Hinds

Dark tales of revenge, madness, and doom unfold in a haunting graphic novel adaptation.

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120 pages

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Enter a world where revenge leads to catacombs, a prince's party becomes a plague's playground, and a prisoner's torment is unseen. In this graphic novel, Poe's chilling tales like 'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart' come alive, exploring themes of madness and mortality. Visual interpretations of 'The Raven' and 'Annabel Lee' add depth to this gothic collection. Will you dare to face the darkness within?

From the publisher

In a thrilling adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known works, acclaimed artist-adapter Gareth Hinds translates Poe’s dark genius into graphic-novel format. It is true that I am nervous. But why will you say that I am mad? In “The Cask of Amontillado,” a man exacts revenge on a disloyal friend at carnival, luring him into catacombs below the city. In “The Masque of the Red Death,” a prince shielding himself from plague hosts a doomed party inside his abbey stronghold. A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, faced with a swinging blade and swarming rats, can’t see his tormentors in “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a milky eye and a deafening heartbeat reveal the effects of conscience and creeping madness. Alongside these tales are visual interpretations of three poems – “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and Poe’s poignant elegy to lost love, “Annabel Lee.” The seven concise graphic narratives, keyed to thematic icons, amplify and honor the timeless legacy of a master of gothic horror.

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