TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

The great master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, earned his living writing stories for American magazines between 1830 and his death at the age of 40 in 1849. In his short lifetime he became the pre-eminent chronicler of the unquiet mind. Fourteen of these unnerving tales and four poems are collected in Arion’s presentation. The set is composed of Poe’s Phantasia and the companion volume The Raven. The former contains three sections: “Fantasies,” “Fantasias,” and “Fever Dreams,” each of which is introduced by a celebrated poem. The Raven companion volume features seven brilliant gouache-and-chalk pastel drawings by Natalie Frank which bring into focus Lenore, the flesh-and-blood woman whose loss inspired one of the most famous refrains in English literature: Nevermore.

7 gouache and chalk pastel drawings, 30 x 22”, 2023

Book: Poe’s Phantasia, Stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe, artwork by Natalie Frank, foreword by Chris Semtner, Introduction by Ed Schad, Arion Press, 2023