King Pest by Alberto Martini.
My thanks to the estimable Mr Shea for bringing to my attention this website devoted to the many illustrated editions of Edgar Allan Poe. Quite a few of the older illustrations have been featured here in the past but most of the later ones are new to me. The site is comprehensive enough to include my own illustrated edition from 2017, a book whose shortcomings I often find myself apologising for. (I was very pressured for time with that commission, and would welcome an opportunity to redo some of the pictures.)
A Descent into the Maelström by Alberto Martini.
I could draw attention to the later editions but I’ll single out the work of Alberto Martini (1876–1954), an Italian artist whose work I find especially attractive for the way it provides a bridge between Decadence and Surrealism. His Poe illustrations appear now and then in books or articles about horror fiction but you seldom see all of them together.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Alberto Martini.
Meanwhile, Ted Parmelee’s short but very effective animated adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart (1953) turned up recently at the Internet Archive in a copy that’s the best I’ve seen to date. Watch it here.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The illustrators archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Robert Lawson’s House of Usher
• Edmund Dulac’s illustrated Poe
• The Fall of the House of Usher, 1928
• The Purloined Eidolon
• Martin van Maële’s illustrated Poe
• Mask of the Red Death, 1969
• Narraciones extraordinarias by Edgar Allan Poe
• Fritz Eichenberg’s illustrated Poe
• The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope
• Hugo Steiner-Prag’s illustrated Poe
• Burt Shonberg’s Poe paintings
• Illustrating Poe #5: Among the others
• Illustrating Poe #4: Wilfried Sätty
• Illustrating Poe #3: Harry Clarke>
• Illustrating Poe #2: William Heath Robinson
• Illustrating Poe #1: Aubrey Beardsley
• Poe at 200
• The Tell-Tale Heart from UPA
• William Heath Robinson’s illustrated Poe
1) Agree: There is always more Poe…
2) Disagree: Regarding Coulthart’s POE
>The illustrator engendered quite a “Annus Mirabilis” in 2017…Editorial Alma’s Spanish edition of Edgar Allan Poe [had] definitive versions of the tales that surpass some images by Wilfred Satty and even Harry Clarke.
I sit as I type this but stand by those words.
lastly
For all Ye Feuilleton fiends who appreciate Messr C’s more frequent posts some
ROCKTOBER! Bonus Tracks–On Account of Rabies…
3) >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGOTOPkJjI&list=PL7TRvMo1SpI2bczsRWb9mjNOLO0bAo6Xy
A large deluxe edition of Alberto Martini Illustrator of Edgar Allan Poe, was published in Italy in 1984 – complete with a quality box. It was printed on light blue/grey paper which is most effective. (A 2215 copy edition, published by Franco Maria Ricci, Milan.) My favorite illustration is the one for Berenice.
Regards
David
Joe: You’re too kind.
David: Thanks, the Ricci edition is the one linked here.
Closed on Account of Rabies is a fine set. My favorite performance is Jeff Buckley doing Ulalume. Buckley knew Allen Ginsberg and asked him to come into the studio and coach him for the reading. Just a few months later both were gone.
Mark me down as another, er, rabid enthusiast for that album. I especially like Gabriel Byrne’s reading of “The Masque of the Red Death”.