TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION

BY EDGAR ALLEN POE  WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF HARRY CLARKE

THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY     FRANKLIN CENTER, PENNSYLVANIA      1987

Special contents copyright for this edition 1979, 1985, 1987.   Attractive 6" x 9" design.  Sanguine buckram (full-cloth) boards, ornately detailed gilt and silver cover design, spine titles, light shelf wear.   Cover design features window into another world with gilt columns, mountains, and silver river, surrounded by dentelle designs of smoke and candles with twinkling stars above.  Spine features crisp stylized gilt titles, three raised bands, and echoing the design of cover w/ornate columns, mountains and silver river. 

Pages near fine.  Bright gilded page edges at all sides.  Red star patterned endpapers.   Bind fine; hinges intact.  Fine, heavy book craftsmanship.   Profusely illustrated with the ethereal, spine-tingling imagery of Harry Clarke.  Includes many beautifully designed plates and chiaroscuro-like full-page illustrations.  Each rich in detail and depth.  Additional partial-page imagery, vignettes, and decoration by Harry Clarke throughout.  

First published in 1919, Tales of Mystery and Imagination matched Edgar Allan Poe's best tales of horror and suspense with the expressive artwork of Harry Clarke.  Beautifully designed volume with striking illustrations giving substance to the terrifying imagery in Poe's masterpieces of the macabre.  'Clarke's art perfectly captures the perversity, madness, and delight in horror that were the hallmarks of Poe's dark genius'. - Neil Gaiman.  

Arranged in three sections, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque include: King Pest; MS. Found in a Bottle; Silence - A Fable; Berenice; William Wilson; Ligeia; The Assignation; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar.  Tales of Horror and Suspense include: The Pit and the Pendulum; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Cask of Amontillado; A Descent into the Maelstrom; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Black Cat; and, The Masque of Red Death.   And, Tales of Ratiocination include: The Gold-Bug; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; and, The Purloined Letter.  Printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co. Chicago, Illinois.  8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.  305 pages.  Insured post.