A renowned comic book author and illustrator collects his adaptations of fifteen Poe tales and poems. He usually sticks to the plot of the originals. I wish he’d used more quotes from them. He is a good writer but of course it is his art, drawing and coloring, that is unforgettable. The background is traditional Gothic. The characters are his very much his own, creatures that resemble either human/rodent hybrids or tall people with heads shaped like Easter Island statues or Frankenstein’s monster after a visit to a stylist, with expressions full of fear and dread and pain and wrath. He has a recurring character, Mag the Hag, who introduces, comments on, and ends the tails with a dose of modern sensibility to otherwise nineteenth century material. A great example of comic book horror art. ( )