Lewis Carroll had John Tenniel, A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame had Ernest Shepard. These were perfect matches of stories and artwork, and while others may have come along to illustrate Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, The Wind in the Willows and Winnie the Pooh, it's those artists who will always be THE artists for those works.
Edgar Allan Poe also had the perfect artist to illustrate his macabre stories in the person of Harry Clarke (1889-1931), a stained glass artist and book illustrator. His black and white illustrations are reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley who found his match with Oscar Wilde, and Clarke's color work is along the lines of the work of the great children's book illustrator Kay Nielson who would later design the "night on Bald Mountain" sequence for Fantasia.
The Cask of Amontillado
King Pest
The Assignation
The Black Cat
The Masque of the Red Death
The Gold Bug
A Descent Into the Maelstrom
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Landor's Cottage
Some Passages in the Life of a Lion (Lionizing)
The Premature Burial
William Wilson
The Tell Tale Heart
MS. Found in a Bottle
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Ligeia
Morella
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum
Berenice
The Tell Tale Heart
Metzengerstein
The Fall of the House of Usher
Ligeia
MS Found in a Bottle
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Edgar Allan Poe
2 comments:
Have you ever read any stories by Edogawa Ranpo? He's a Japanese author who borrowed his penname from EAP. Odd stories, not at all scary, just odd.
I've heard of him, but not read any of his work. I've always planned to though.
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