The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories - Softcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416950265 ISBN 13: 9781416950264

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2011

Synopsis

Stories of lost love, lost ways…and lost minds! Gris Grimly’s mysterious, morbid, macabre illustrations capture four Poe classics with an unmatchable ghoulish charm. A companion to Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Madness, this second installment of illustrated Poe includes the perennial favorite The Tell-Tale Heart as well as The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether, The Oblong Box, and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar . Brought to life with an abundance of full-color art, these slightly trimmed stories have never looked better—or more frightening! Tighten your straitjackets….

About this title

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer, poet, and critic. Best known for his macabre prose work, including the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” his writing has influenced literature in the United States and around the world.

Gris Grimly lives in Pasadena, California, where he runs the Mad Creator Studio. He is also the illustrator of the New York Times bestselling The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman, Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Madness and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He also wrote and illustrated Gris Grimly’s Wicked Nursery Rhymes. You can learn more about him at www.madcreator.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416950265
• ISBN 13: 9781416950264
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Grimly Gris
• Number of pages: 144