This collection contains 29 of Edgar Allan Poe's finest stories. The 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' are also beautifully illustrated by Harry Clarke.

Of all the illustrators, perhaps it is Clarke who has come closest to evoking the delirious claustrophobia and frightening inventiveness of “Poe-land”.

Harry Clarke (1889-1931) Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. "The Year's at the Spring an Anthology of Recent Poetry" (1920) Compiled by Lettice D'Oyly Walters Illustrated by Harry Clarke ___ VERY NEARLY! by Queenie Scott Hopper (1881-1924) I NEVER quite saw fairy-folk A-dancing in the glade, Where, just beyond the hollow oak, Their broad green rings are laid : But, while behind that oak I hid, One day I very nearly did ! I never quite saw mermaids…

"I had myself no power to move from the upright position I had assumed" Harry Clarke, 1889-1931 From book, "Tales of mystery and Imagination,," by authro Edgar Allan Poe

A spectral figure wearing loose bandages stands at the entrance of a hall, holding up a grimacing mask while the guests have moved to the back of the room

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The illustrator and stained-glass designer fused Irish and European traditions to create an intriguing new idiom, writes Tom Walker

Many of you may notice that the art of today's featured artist Austin Molloy (1886–1961) bears a striking resemblance to illustration legend...

To finish our trio of Sleeping Beauty posts, let's turn to the figure of the Thirteenth Fairy.* This quote comes, once again, from About the Sleeping Beauty by P.L. Travers: "The appearance of this lady at the christening is the...

The research in Dark Beauty is scholarly and thorough with engaging intimacy