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Cuentos Macabros (2011)

by Edgar Allan Poe(Favorite Author)

4.23 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Edelvives

review 1: Macabre, indeed. The first tale in this edition is the haunting "Berenice"; a tale about obsession/fixation, death, bloody teeth and resurrection. Shortly after follows "The Black Cat"; a story of alcohol abuse, fire, damnation, murder and a black cat who is the source of it all. Poe's stories are filled with unreliable narrators, either blinded by alcohol or caught in a blurry opium haze, and beautiful women with voices like soft music, inevitably destined to an early death. Poe uses themes of guilt and a continual striving towards proven sanity, to expose his characters and draw them out from the darkness they have surrounded themselves with.The book itself is a beautiful object; filled with sinister and creative illustrations which only adds to the natural darkness of t... morehe stories. It is a wonder to flip through and to own; adorning every bookshelf with its terrible beauty.
review 2: I've always wanted to read something by Edgar Allan Poe. Since my interest in ghothic stuff when I was young, until my admiration for people like Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman, who were strongly influenced by him. And of course, for my love of all things horror!Than, I got introduced to Benjamin's Lacombe art, and felt in love with it at the first sight. I admired the fact that he did illustrations for childrens books with a dark tone, as Tim Burton does with his movies.So when I discovered this book, I just had to had it! I tried and tried to bought it, until finally I got it as a gift last Christimas.What a beautiful book! The hardcover is already a piece of art. There are illustrations in pretty much every page, but with perfect balance, without taking too much attention from the text. And the text was everything that I hoped from a master of horror, and a little more!He writes his horror stories in first person, so you get inside the mind of his mad characters. There's poetry, beauty and a lot of really dark stuff, that goes perfectly together with Lacombe's illustrations.One of the best books that ever got to my hands! less

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