The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
In his toilsome journey to the water his fears redouble within him.
The Mystery Of Marie Roget.
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Art, Fun, & Nonsense.
The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
In his toilsome journey to the water his fears redouble within him.
The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
Gnashing its teeth, and flashing fire from its eyes, it flew upon the body of the girl.
The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
“In my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.”
The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
But then without those doors there DID stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the Lady Madeline of Usher.
DeadpanAdjective.
Marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression.
-deadpan, adverb.
(C 1928)
Noun.
1: a completely expressionless face.
2: a deadpan manner of behaviour or presentation.
(C 1930)
Transitive Verb.
To express in a deadpan manner.
-deadpanner, noun.
(C 1942)
“Cold enough,” Tristan hazarded, “to form a Bose-Einstein condensate?” “I love it when you talk dirty,” Oda said, so perfectly deadpan that I did a double take.” – The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland.
The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
“I would call aloud upon her name.”
The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic,…upon the interior surface of a funnel.
The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
But there was no voice throughout the vast, illimitable desert.
The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
“Avast there a bit, I say, and tell us who the devil ye all are!”
HeterodoxAdjective.
1: contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion: Unorthodox, Unconventional <heterodox ideas>
2: holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines.
[Origin: Late Latin heterodoxus, from Greek heterodoxos, from heter– + doxa opinion.]
(1650)
“A verifiable fallen academic (from the American University and Tufts, among others), Marston had a gift for dressing sensationally vulgar ideas in pseudo-intellectual jargon, and he exploited it for a few years in Hollywood, advising the studios on how to maneuver around the Hays Office censors and sneak sex in films through symbolism and coded language. Relocated to New York and the publishing industry, he hustled pseudoscience and heterodox titillation through comics and popular magazines (in bylined articles, interviews, and the advertisements for Gillette Razor Blades). – The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, David Hadju.
The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
It was the Marchesa Aphrodite – the adoration of all Venice.
“I had myself no power to move from the upright position I had assumed.”
The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
“Has no copy been taken?” he demanded, surveying it through a microscope.
The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
“The earth grew dark, and its figures passed by me, like flitting shadows, and among them all I beheld only -Morella.”