Die Maske des roten Todes und andere geheimnisvolle Erzählungen: Grauenvoll Illustriert von Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939)

by Edgar Allan Poe, Gisela Etzel (translator), Arthur Rackham (illustrator)

Von »Hinab in den Maelstrom« über den »Goldkäfer« bis zum »Untergang des Hauses Usher« versammelt dieser Band eine starke Auswahl der unheimlichen Geschichten von Edgar Allan Poe. Und nie ließ es sich schöner schaudern als mit dieser prächtigen Ausgabe, denn sie enthält die fantastischen Illustrationen, die der englische Künstler Arthur Rackham zu Poes Erzählungen schuf. Die 29 Bildtafeln sind kongeniale Kunstwerke von hoher Imaginationskraft und zeitloser Schönheit.

Einzigartige, grauenvoll illustrierte Ausgabe Poe zählt zu den Begründern der Horrorliteratur. Seine Poesie wurde zum Fundament des SymbolismusArthur Rackham (1867 - 1939) war einer der besten und stilprägenden Illustratoren seiner Zeit»Wenn jeder, der einen Scheck für eine Geschichte erhält, die ihren Ursprung Poe verdankt, den Zehnten für ein Denkmal des Meisters entrichten müsste, hätte er eine Pyramide, so groß wie die des Cheops.« Arthur Conan Doyle»Poe erschuf konstant und unweigerlich Magie, während seine größten Zeitgenossen lediglich Schönheit hervorbrachten. […] Vor allem ist Poe groß, weil er auf billige Anreize verzichtet, auf Sex, Patriotismus, Kampf, Sentimentalität, Snobismus, Völlerei und den ganzen vulgären Rest dessen, was sein Berufsstand sonst noch zu bieten hat.« George Bernard ShawZu seiner stilprägendsten Erzählung zählt die ebenfalls enthaltene Kurzgeschichte "Der Untergang des Hauses Usher" (Netflixserie, Okt. 2023). Sie gilt als das Beispielwerk der Schwarzen Romantik

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Published November 13, 2024

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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