Selected Poems & Tales
By: Edgar Allan Poe ; illustrated by Mark Summers ; introduction by Neil Gaiman.
Contributors: Gaiman, Neil.; Summers, Mark.
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780760756744
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Fantasy literature, American.; Detective and mystery stories, American.; Horror tales, American.
Work titles: Selections.
Description: For more than a century-and-a-half, Edgar Allan Poe's poems and tales have thrilled readers with chilling accounts of matters mysterious and macabre. Their somber poetry and rich moods of menace and melancholy have conjured some of the most haunting images in American literature: the accusing echo of the tell-tale heart, the beloved but doomed Annabel Lee, the gloom-shrouded House of Usher, the maddening tortures of the pit and pendulum, the eerie and enigmatic Raven.

Dramatic and irreversible, Poe's work invites us to match our darkest imaginings to his vision of the world colored by grief and madness and haunted by specters of guilt and death. This illustrated edition captures Poe's best-known works in all their shadowy splendor through the incomparable art of Mark Summers. His striking full-page color illustrations and ghostly black-and-white pencil sketches reveal the skull beneath the skin of Poe's obsessed and mournful characters and subtly express their heart of emotional darkness that gives them life and purpose.

The book also features and introduction by best-selling fantasist and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman, who discusses his personal relationship with Poe's writing and its enduring impact. "Poe", he writes, "for all his short life and unfulfilled potential, remains as much read today, his finest stories as successful, as readable, as contemporary as anyone can desire." This new edition of Poe's unforgettable writing is a colorful and imaginative tribute to this most contemporary of classic writers.
--front flap
Table of contents: title: Some strangeness in the proportion: the exquisite beauties of Edgar Allan Poe / Neil Gaiman; title: Poems: The city in the sea; title: Tamerlane; title: Eldorado; title: Spirits of the dead; title: The conqueror worm; title: Annabel Lee; title: Lenore; title: The raven; title: Ulalume, a ballad; title: The bells; title: Tales: The masque of the red death; title: The fall of the House of Usher; title: Berenice; title: Ligeia; title: The black cat; title: The sphinx; title: The balloon-hoax; title: Ms. found in a bottle; title: A descent into the maelström; title: The pit and the pendulum; title: The imp of the perverse; title: The tell-tale heart; title: The facts in the case of M. Valdemar; title: The murders in the Rue Morgue; title: Hop-frog; title: The cask of Amontillado.