Edgar allan poe illustration

Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe illustration by Frederick Simpson Coburn, 1915

The first verse of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845).

Edgar Allen Poe

My illustration for "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson, Ben Jones

Since Edgar Allan Poe’s stories of suspense and horror were first compiled as Tales of Mystery and Imagination in 1902, many gifted artists have tried their hand at illustrating them, notably Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac and Gustave Dore. But perhaps it is the Irishman Harry Clarke who has come closest to evoking the delirious claustrophobia and frightening inventiveness of “Poe-land”. For the 1919 edition of Tales Clarke created the twenty-four monochrome images featured below. Their…