Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror: Volume One

Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror (collected editions) #1

by Tom Peyer, Mark Russell, Hunt Emerson

EDGAR ALLAN POE mangles classic tales and brand new stories in this cross between Drunk History and Tales from the Crypt! A comedic collection of Edgar Allan Poe's sickest stories, adapted by comics' snarkiest talents, and original stories--all introduced by Poe at his drunkest. Collecting all of the comics from the 6-issue AHOY Comics series, plus prose, a puzzle, and poetry.

"A zany look at horror through the weird interpretive lens of a drunk Edgar Allan Poe as your guide through classic tales of the macabre." -- io9

"Snifter of Terror is the EC Comics-meets-Mad Magazine book you'll want to read." -- PC MAG

"A tantalizing new collection of frightful stories ..... It's a refreshing measure of the macabre from some of the genre's top talent, with a unique twist on the source material."-- SYFY WIRE

"What do you get when you mix Edgar Allan Poe, syphilis, breakfast cereal, and a barnacle? Sounds like a joke with a terrible punchline, but in this case, the result is splendid. Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror #1 provides the world with all of that and so much more." -- FANBASE PRESS

"'Dark Chocolate' by Russell and Snejbjerg is...an absolute work of genius. If ever there needed to be one sole reason to check this book out, it's this story. It's no secret that Mark Russell is a great writer and can turn just about any idea into solid gold, but this story about a vampire who is renowned for his breakfast cereals is fantastic. Russell's wit is all over the tale and Snejbjerg's cartoonish style works perfectly with the tone." -- ADVENTURES IN POOR TASTE

"We're suckers for a great anthology, and the creator list AHOY has put together here is beyond amazing." -- COMICS BEAT

"Exploring hilariously dark tales of suspense, shock and horror, this is one ghoulishly excellent comic you won't want to miss!" -- IMPULSE GAMER

"A great, fun read." -- COMICON

"Fun and creepy in all the right ways." -- FANDOM POST

"Absolutely hysterical." -- READING WITH A FLIGHT RING

"Writer Rachel Pollack brings together the eerie tones of the original, with some opium flavored humor to make silly jokes at Poe's expense. Rick Geary's renditions of Victorian-era art, with Michael Garland's colors, perfectly captures the gothic ambiance with comedic expressions."-- EVERYTHING ACTION

Genres: Graphic Novels, Horror, Comics, Humor, Fiction, Anthologies, Fantasy

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2019

About the author

Tom Peyer is an American comic book creator and editor.

He is known for his 1999 revisioning of Golden Age super-hero Hourman, as well as his work on the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 1990s. An editor at DC Comics/Vertigo from 1987 to 1993, he served as assistant editor on Neil Gaiman's groundbreaking Sandman. Peyer has also worked for Marvel Comics, Wildstorm, and Bongo Comics. With John Layman, he wrote the 2007–2009 Tek Jansen comic book, based on the Stephen Colbert character.

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mad Magazine for Poe fans. I never really got the appeal of Mad Magazine. The jokes were always terrible along with the art. That applies here as well. There is a genius story by Mark Russell and Peter Snejbjerg where he rewrites Count Chocula and Frankenberry along with a bunch of other cereal mascots into a Victorian Gothic tale. The rest was just a load of nonsense.

Received a review copy from Ahoy comics and netGalley. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's back to school season as I write this review....so I am already gearing up for Halloween. I am going to stuff my head full of all the horror, ghosts, ghoulies and things that go bump in the night that I can until that time of year where things morph from fall to jingle bells. As that gets earlier every year, I start reading horror earlier each year. My Halloween time must not be encroached upon by Santa Claus! Soon I will be reading Poe at Easter. I have already seen one dollar store in the area with Christmas ornaments for sale. Made me rush home and start filling up my horror TBR pile.

I always start out with more light hearted stuff.....horror mixed with comedy, cheesy plots, stories that could be late late night movies.

I saw a graphic novel with an obviously dead drunk (or maybe drunk and dead would be a better way to put that) Edgar Allan Poe with a goblet of very suspicious looking liquid. Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror? Oh hell yeah I'm reading that! Immediate click. I will review weird stuff like this all day long! What fun!

Now....I do have to say....I am usually quite defensive about Mr. Poe. He has been maligned since his death in 1849. He's been accused of being a pedophile (for marrying his young cousin), a drunk, a drug addict....and the story goes that before his death he was found raving nonsense in a gutter in the midst of a fatal overdose. Well....when your obituary in the newspaper is written by an enemy, anything is bound to be said....right?? I have always been of the opinion that Poe was attacked, poisoned, met a fate not completely of his own fault.....and then his reputation was ruined by jealous fellow writers, journalists and sleeze buckets because he was no longer able to defend himself. Shit rakers. Now this could be true....totally untrue.....or partially true.....or a flight of fancy by people who love Poe's dark writing. I'm always keen to give people the benefit of a doubt. That being said.....I also have a sense of humor. And I think Poe did too. So this comic did not upset me as a Poe fan....I chuckled at the artwork, the mangling of his stories for fun and the lovely little horrific wonders in this illustrated anthology. It is better to be open and honest about poking fun.....rather than sneakily do it to ruin someone as the shit rakers in 1849 did.

Some caution is needed here -- this anthology is not for kids or those easily offended. There is a bit of harmless nudity. No dangly bits.....just some butt cheeks. But for those who don't want to see an artistic representation of Edgar's butt....you might want to pass this by. Those who really do want to see Edgar's butt might also want to pass this by.....it's not done in a booty sort of way, but rather a drunken moon fashion. There are also some illustrations of vomit and other gross things. Humorously done.....but eww. :)

The stories are varied. Some are parodies of Poe's work and some are completely original short works of horror/disgust/strangeness. I do wish they had not mixed in quite so much political satire. I am getting weary of the same old shit.....I wanted horror not thinly veiled SJW short pieces or jabs at el presidente. (Despite the fact it is very very easy to poke jabs at that certain person) One or two pieces that were political satire rather than other forms of dark comedy/horror I could have enjoyed and moved on to the rest of the darkness...but there were just too many. I found myself skimming a couple of the stories because I just wasn't interested. But....with any anthology collection (even a small one), there will be stories a reader enjoys and ones that aren't for them. Variation is the spice of life....and reading. So, I didn't make any judgments on the pieces I didn't like.....just thought of them as "not for me.''

As I finished, I couldn't help comparing this collection with MAD Magazine. Irreverent. Fun. Bit of dark jabs at every day life. And a bit of fun at Poe's expense. All in all, I enjoyed this collection! But I went in to it knowing what I was going to be reading....a reader can't pick up this book thinking it is actual horror stories. It's meant to be dark comedy, satire, strange pieces that hit sideways....all narrated by a drunken, angry Poe. Strap on your sense of humor and love of the strange before you start reading....and all will be well. No sense of humor? Walk on by, love.

This anthology collects issues 1-6 of the comic by Ahoy Comics. The artwork is great! The wrinkles on Poe's butt were quite realistic...hee hee. :) Loved the snark! Not sure if that was really Poe's butt though.....it may have been a stunt butt. :)

**I voluntarily read an advance readers copy of this book from Diamond Book Distributors via NetGalley. All opinions expressed are entirely my own. I did not laugh at Poe during my reading...but with him...sort of. Maybe. A bit. **

[Alexander Peterhans · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great little collection of Poe stories, written and drawn by varied group of artists, with an emphasis on humour and satire over any kind of horror. Interjected with new bits of short prose and poetry.

I felt the quality dipped a bit in the last two issues, but of course, ymmv.

3,5 veering leisurely to a 4.

Read as 6 single issues

[Samantha · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review via Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own.

I was so excited to read this book. Edgar Allen Poe in October, what could be better? Well, a lot actually. I found this book to be very boring except for maybe 1 of the stories. The only good thing I liked about this book are the graphics. The graphics are very well done and pleasing to looK at.

[Ed Erwin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfect reading for Halloween. It is kind of like a mix of "Treehouse of Horror", Mad magazine, and "Drunk History" (with Poe as the drunk).

How could you not like the covers:

Most of the stories are based around one or more Poe story, including some pretty obscure ones. (How many of you remember Poe's stories "Bon Bon" or "Duc de l'Omellette"? The two of them are smooshed together into a single parody here.)

My favorite stories though are the ones by Mark Russell about breakfast cereal monsters like "Count Chocula", "Frankenberry", etc. They have nothing to do with Poe, unless perhaps "Toucan Sam" represents "The Raven".

Volume 1 is included in Comixology Unlimited. I enjoyed it enough to purchase volume 2. It also led me to discover the publisher "Ahoy Comics" and I also read their High Heaven: The Austerity Gospel about a guy who dies and goes to heaven and it is awful and everyone there hates him.

[Radwa · Rating 5 out of 5]

What will I do when I run out of these retellings/adaptations of Poe's stories?

[Irene Well Worth A Read · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love Edgar Allan Poe, and I loved horror comics in the 80s so I expected to love this.
It wasn't scary and it was too corny to be funny. I don't think Poe would be impressed.
Kudos to the illustrator for the amazing artwork.

I received an advance copy for review

[Etienne · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bunch of short stories that try to be «horror» or to do an homage to Poe. Poorly done, the art was alright but the story in every aspects of them were bad. Not scary, not good, no surprise, no twist... Waste of time and a disgrace to Poe name.

[Bryan Ball · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a whole lot of weird, uneven fun. For the most part, this collection is different artists and writers taking a crack at a Poe tale (or Poe inspired, for some) that usually have some twist and more often than not have a graphic novel Edgar Allan Poe introducing their story (while, more often than not, drinking in or getting kicked out of, a bar.) In between each story are two pages of random fiction and poetry— some horror or science-fiction or even Poe related— to varying degrees of quality. Some of these stories and adaptations are amazing, others okay, and some flat out terrible. Overall, this is a great effort, and I love the format of new and ongoing Poe adaptations. I will absolutely read the following volumes in this series.

[Jen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a real mixed bag. Though overplayed, Poe as the drunken narrator works. And a few of the original stories were quite good. A lot of this just wasn’t amusing/entertaining and there definitely wasn’t any horror. I believe Ahoy is planning a second series. Being a sucker for Poe, I’ll check it out. Hope for better things, though. 3/5

[Alex Sarll]

A curiously specific anthology, with various moderately well-known creators (Mark Russell, Ann Nocenti, Hunt Emerson, folk like that) turning in short horror comics, almost all of them at the horror-comedy end of things, and the vast majority of them based (albeit often fairly loosely) on Edgar Allan Poe strips, often introduced by comedically wasted versions of the man himself. In between them are one-page prose pieces, some of them entirely serious, and generally with no Poe link that I noticed (though it's not as if I've read anything like the complete works). Most of these are serious, a few are properly horrific, and one, by Joachim Heijndermans – not a name I've seen before – is plain heartbreaking. Oh, and once or twice these categories break down altogether and you get something like a two-page pastiche of The Raven in which the narrator is Trump and the corvid is Putin, which is probably the outright funniest thing in the book, and definitely the most appalling. Another one to file under 'I have absolutely no idea why this book should have come to exist, but I'm quite glad it does'.

(Netgalley ARC)

[Krissy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this! It really did remind me of Drunk History (as stated in the blurb). I love Poe, so I was super excited to read this one. I would love to own this in paper form. It was a really cool graphic novel with comedic retellings of some of Poe's stories. A really fun read.

[Dennis Lynch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clever and screwy mashups of multiple Poe stories in comic book form. Good artwork, irreverent attitude. A series of Poe vs The black Cat stories in each issue are clearly inspired by the Spy vs Spy adventures in Mad magazine.

[Sofia · Rating 1 out of 5]

no.

[Edward · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh, Edgar Allan Poe, you tormented genius of the macabre—how you've been reduced to this: a "Snifter of Terror" that's less gothic horror and more watered-down hipster punchline. I went in hoping for chills and thrills, maybe a raven or two dropping some eldritch truth bombs. What I got was a comic adaptation so desperately trying to be edgy and satirical that it lands like a wet fart in a crypt.

You know the saying "the left can't meme"? Well, they can't write a satirical story either, holy shit. This thing reads like a reddit fever dream: forced wokeness shoehorned into every panel, with Poe's timeless dread swapped out for eye-roll-inducing "subversions" that feel about as subversive as a corporate DEI seminar. The art? Slapdash scribbles that make Calvin and Hobbes look like Michelangelo. The writing? Tom Peyser and crew treat Poe's legacy like a piñata at sensitivity training—whack it open, and out spills nothing but confetti and cringe.

If you're looking for Poe that actually terrifies, stick to the originals. This is the literary equivalent of that one uncle who shows up to Thanksgiving with "edgy" Trump jokes from 2016. Nevermore, indeed. Save your money and your sanity.

[Jean-Pierre Vidrine · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's no better way of saying it: this is bloody brilliant! To elaborate, I haven't come across a such a great mix of horror and humor since DC's Plop! The creators were clearly inspired by the idea of spoofing Poe's works and style, but they didn't stop there.
The truly scary bits, of course, are those stories satirizing our current political situation. The text piece "Just the Facts," in particular hits a nerve as, absurd as it reads, isn't far at all from the truth. *sigh*
Two particular favorites are "Dark Chocolate" and "The Tragic Tale of Franken Cherrie," both written by Mark Russell and illustrated by Peter Snejbjerg. Years ago, I fell for an April Fool's prank story by a late "fan" publication that will remain nameless that foretold of a horror comic series featuring beloved cereal box mascots. Besides feeling quite silly at having been duped, I genuinely lamented that I wouldn't be reading those comics. I'm weird; I thought it was a cool idea. Thank you Messrs. Russell and Snejbjerg for finally creating those comics.

[Wayne McCoy · Rating 2 out of 5]

'Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror: Volume One' from Ahoy Comics is a graphic novel anthology of horror satire and cynicism.

Hosted by a drunk (and disgusting) Edgar Allan Poe, this collection is a series of short comics inspired, or not inspired, by the works of Mr. Poe. There are also poems, prose pieces and a puzzle. The stories all fall in to the semi-serious to over the top ludicrous.

I reminded me a bit of a horror version of MAD magazine. I liked the collection and found some material stronger than other material. Nothing made me laugh completely out loud, but it was entertaining enough.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Ahoy Comics, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

[Chris McMillan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun adaptation of Poe's stories, which take a modern and, at times, humorous tone. The book does take Poe's problems with alcohol and makes it a corner of his introductions, which is a bit overdone. And some won't appreciate the updates to some of his classic stories, or the tone of some stories. Still, it's an interesting take on his tales and worth a look.

And it made me want to dig into Poe's work again, which I haven't read in decades.

[Mohan · Rating 4 out of 5]

‘Exploring hilariously dark tales of suspense, shock and horror, this is one ghoulishly excellent comic’
- impulse gamer

This is a unique comic book where Edgar Allen Poe narrates the story in which Edgar Allen Poe is the protagonist in all of individual short stories where he explain everything in most drunken state. Some of the stories are not for everyone.

[Richard · Rating 5 out of 5]

This colorful graphic anthology is excellent!
One series of cartoons, Poe And The Black Cat, is a hilarious
albeit violent and bloody game of comeuppance, a funnier
and more furious version of Mad's Spy V. Spy.

[Rob McMonigal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hard to believe this is from 2019. Not always perfect, but when it is, this is one of my favorite horror comedy comics, which is a really hard niche to get right.

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

The title and description (Poe's tales told from his drunk POV) sounded amazing! This volume in its entirety wasn't exactly what I was expecting, however. While there were some stories that were very heavily Poe-inspired, there were also some Frankenstein, Goethe, and Lovecraft influences, and a lot of heavily political and anti-Trump pieces. The stories I enjoyed most were the literary ones, although there was a great poem called "The Putin" written in the style of "The Raven." I also kinda liked the gothic cereal stories? They were amusing, anyway. Other stories (and there were some that were not told in comics format) didn't hit me as being related to Poe except by the barest of threads. It was fun as a one-off, not sure I'd be interested in reading more volumes in this vein.

[Marina · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm more comfortable writing this review in spanish because that's my native language.If you'd like to read this review in english, I can translate it but I will need more time to do so.

Este libro fue el primer libro que recibí, o mejor dicho leí, de Netgalley. Estaba muy emocionada por encontrar una novela gráfica que sea lo suficiente spooky como para poder incluirla en mis lecturas de octubre. Cuando me encontré con esta novela inspirada por Edgar Allan Poe, pensé que era como "anillo al dedo", y la termine pidiendo para poder leerla. Una vez en mis manos, la empece a leer en ese mismo instante y al principio, lo primero que pensé fue que el diseño o las ilustraciones no eran lo que esperaba; no hay nada negativo al respecto, sólo pienso que no era de mi agrado o estética. No obstante, me gusto mucho la "asquerosidad" de los dibujos, y con esto me refiero a la forma en la que en cada historia habían elementos un poco grotescos como baba, vomito, etc. Otro elemento que también me gusto muchísimo fue el "portreit" que le adjudicaron a Edgar Allan Poe, me pareció súper divertido y ademas muy moderno (y controversial).
Dentro de los que son las historias, las que estaban en viñetas, me parecían más agradables y interesantes que las que estaban escritas en verso o en columna. Sin embargo, las ilustraciones de las que estaban escritas (porque en las que estaban escritas aparecía al inicio o al final una mera representación) se veían más apacible a mis ojos. Esté tipo de diseño, viñeta no viñeta, me pareció atrayente y también me pareció una buena manera para mantener la atención del lector para que no se aburra.
Digamos que los puntos que no estuvieron a favor en esta novela gráfica, personalmente, fueron las ilustraciones y el contenido, ya que habían historias que sí me aburrían y otras que no agregaban a la novela como para que esta fuera una novela que luego vaya a recordar con el tiempo. Para mi, un puntaje tres estrellas es "no está mal", lo cual queda muy bien en esta reseña. Recalco lo más positivo, ya que esa es mi mejor forma de reseñar.

[Jackie (Jacademic) · Rating 2 out of 5]

As a fan of both Poe and EC Comics, I was really hoping to like this, but, overall, just found it a strange and largely incoherent collection of disparate pieces that was neither as funny or politically sharp as it thinks it is (which is a shame since inclusions like "The Fall of the White House of President Usher" had a lot of potential).

Titles included here worked best when directly satirizing Poe's works, particularly when the marriage of Poe and Mad Magazine-inspired grotesquerie was on full display (Hunt Emerson's "Poe and the Black Cat," for example), but so many pieces felt like bizarre sidetracks that made only limp attempts at poking fun at 19th century Gothic (broadly, that is; not sure why there wasn't actually more focus on Poe specifically when it isn't as though there isn't plenty of material to work with) .

That said, Mark Russell and Peter Snejbjerg's "Dark Chocolate" is by far and away the best piece of the lot -- a tale that, again, has more to do with 19th century horror and the mid-20th century's commercialization of it into "happy gothic" broadly and less to do with Poe's tales specifically. That the funniest and most imaginative inclusion has very little to do with Poe is perhaps exactly the problem, because, overall, the gags about Poe, most fully on display in the frame narrative of a drunken Poe as our host, were just TIRED (the over-exaggerated claims of Poe's drinking and opium use, jokes about Poe's marriage to his cousin, etc, etc.). Poe and horror comics is a match made in grotesque slapstick heaven, but this collection just falls flat.

[Armand · Rating 3 out of 5]

Edgar Allan Poe as an opium-sniffing, turpentine-swilling, vomit-heaving, syphilitic lush of a narrator works surprisingly well. I wasn't offended at all by the comical jabs at the narrator's drunkenness, but maybe that's because I'm a teetotaler. He shan't be challenging the Cryptkeeper's throne anytime soon, but his bungling dissipation has a charm of it own.

Just as he is the narrator, some of the leads in the stories also resemble him. Like Valdemar the hygiene-deficient pastry chef, Ligeia's paramour-cum-occult-student, the Poet, and the detective Dupin in Tar Feathers. I especially liked his gore-drenched, crazily inventive war of attrition against the Black Cat. I think you can guess who usually got the raw end of the deal here heh.

The tales here are fresh and irreverent takes on Poe's seminal classics. I like how the series also included some obscure Poe stories, like The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall and the Duc de L'Omelette. A few are original to the series tho. Also, not all of the tales here are illustrated, as the book also offers a selection of poems and short stories.

As with most anthologies, there are some duds but for the most part it is enjoyable. Many of the stories are entertaining if rather unsubtle in their comedic attempts. They makes no pretensions at high humor so the silly fun doesn't descend into anything cringey.

I do hope that should they continue this series in the future they'd get rid of all these political asides. These only serve to turn off a big chunk of their potential readership and they also date badly. In any case, I'm rating this 7/10 or 3 stars out of 5.

[April Gray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. I wanted to like this more, but it falls a bit flat. The premise is a very drunk Poe telling stories, kinda mangling them up a bit, sounds like fun, right? Meh. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for the Mad magazine style art and humor. As with any anthology, some stories are better than others.

#EdgarAllanPoesSnifterOfTerror #NetGalley

[Theediscerning · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bakers exploding a la Mr Creosote because they've held death back too far don't exactly seem the stuff of Poe, but purists may well not be imagining anything terribly classical about this book from the cover art. They might well be missing out, however – for the second piece of a tortuous party held by a vampire was good fun, and we get a very straight adaptation of 'Ligeia'. But not all the works here shine – a Frankenstein story does too little, and a ribald series of murders on the Rue Morgue gain us little either. On the other hand, however, a comic poem where Putin comes to own Trump's election success proves the puff quote right, that this has much of the DNA of Mad Magazine, as does the NRA trying to send a man to the moon. An Egyptian mummy resurrected with a bog-standard defibrillator and being shown the glories of America is a kind of halfway house between the more scatological, non-Poe works here and the straight adaptations, as is a quite different House of Usher. And you have to laugh at the Pit and the Pendulum's cameo late on. All told it's a richness – some is clearly fool's gold, but some the real deal, and most is worth a look, even if the hit rate on the prose pages is low. A slightly generous four stars, for the hit rate is usually a lot worse in these things.

[Jake · Rating 3 out of 5]

I check around for what people think about this anthology series. People are familiar with Edgar Allan Poe's best works from a literature class. What many people don't know is that Poe's work are satirical in nature. I even found records of an essay that back up that claim here: http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/ess.... Many people are familiar with the gothic nature that is the default look at Poe. Many people don't really realize that the guy was a drunk who only got famous post-mortem. He's certainly known for his exploits that give rise to detective fiction. At the same time there is the boundary between horror and comedy. The macabre often smashes together for comedic effects. Looking at that, you see the writer try to emulate Poe's mostly hit-or-miss work. As such those hits receive the most attention while the rest are forgotten. In fact, these stories say more about the writers own relationship with the world rather than Poe. When it comes to all of that, it's really a matter of taste as things can either be comedic or just plain weird. Me I've never been the biggest fan of Poe because my teachers had me focus on his landmark work. Nowadays I see a guy just trying to make a living who had real problems. But how well the writer influences today's storytellers can go a long way. I'm not one of those people though.

[Mary Tsiara · Rating 5 out of 5]

💀This is every Poefanatic's dream. 🖤

It includes classic Poe tales such as The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar, The Sphinx, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue with a modern twist and a sketch work that brings them to life in the most hysterical ways. I never imagined Poe's stories would work as a satire of Trump's presidency, consumerism, and global warming but here goes!

My personal favorite from this collection was the Fall of the House of Usher taking place in the White House and applying Baudrillard's theory of the simulacra to the First Ladies. Simply genius. But there's more: in between the comic stories you get intervals of recipes for existential cocktails and witty short stories. The best surprise is perhaps waiting for you at the end of the book with the wildest illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe you have ever seen.

Needless to say, I finished it in one sit while cheating on all the other books I'm reading at the moment; yes, it's that good. Will certainly check the next volumes.

I received this eARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review and I couldn't be more grateful!

[Siedah Simone · Rating 3 out of 5]

This anthology is bizarre, raunchy, and at times slightly disturbing. It maintained a level of humor throughout that is consistent with drunk Poe. The numerous authors and illustrators took the idea of drugged up (or in some cases plastered) Edgar Allan Poe narrating twisting tales and had fun with it. Some of the stories just devolved into madness, even those fit well in the collection. If you enjoyed Poe’s work but wanted something more snarky and modern this collection fits the bill.

Thanks to Netgalley for the digital copy for review purposes.