Edgar Allan Poe / Harry Clarke (ill) - Tales of Mystery and Imagination - 1936

"Tales of Mystery and Imagination" by Edgar Allan Poe and illustrated by Harry Clarke

Tudor Publishing - 1936 Harry Clarke illustrated edition - 25cmx18cm - condition: book in very good edition, minor rubbing to edges, all illustrated plates present.. Overall, a very good copy

Clarke's stunning black and white plates utilize dramatic wide areas of black with intricate areas of white appearing nearly scratched out. The effect at once conveys both the beauty and horror unique to Poe's writing and evokes the dense spiritual qualities of the exquisite text. A wonderful marriage of artist and writer and "probably the ideal interpreter of Edgar Allan Poe." (Bowe, 53) There are twenty-nine tales including "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Descent into the Maelstrom.".