Graphic Classics

Edgar Allan Poe

Graphic Classics (2010)

Once again Graphic Classics have outdone themselves bringing classic tales of horror and the imagination up to date through the use of the graphic novel. Graphic Classics Edgar Allan Poe includes such tales as The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Premature Burial and many others. This is the fourth edition of this well respected edition from Graphic Classics and includes some forty new pages.

Each tale has its own illustrator and hence presents a different take on the stories told, this offers a marvellous varied visual experience as well as the power of the original tales adapted to suit the medium.

The quality of the production cannot be faulted, it has a powerfully visual colour front and back cover and the quality of the images in each tale is amazing. I really enjoy the variation between each tale, some are told in comic book style with story bubbles, while others use graphics to enhance a more a more text based storytelling style. Each tale comes alive in this medium and will bring the tales of Poe to a new audience. While older readers of his stories will find this a refreshing new approach, new readers will be seduced by the modern style and will discover a writer that may just excite their imaginations and encourage them to look up his works.

The book also includes details of each artist, so if you like their work you can order other Graphic Classics volumes which feature their art. It is well worth visiting the Graphic Classics site to see the wide range of titles they have available: http://www.graphicclassics.com/

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This review will appear in Volume 3 No. 4 of the digital and print edition of Synergy Magazine.

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