num_pages: 120
description: 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.
language: English
title: Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
publisher: Candlewick Press