Drunk and alone, the acclaimed author of The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Masque of the Red Death is reduced to introducing horror stories in a comic book. Poe investigates the peculiar goings-on at an asylum for shrieking lunatics in "Tarr Feather!" PLUS! A hideous living monster manifests in "The Sphinx!" AND! Still another violent Black Cat caper! EXTRA! More prose and illustrations by the most wretched and unfortunate minds of today!

Drunk and alone, the acclaimed author of The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Masque of the Red Death is reduced to introducing horror stories in a comic book. Four irreverent Poe adaptations! The simian-inflected "Murders in the Rue Morgue," the bibulous "Some Words With a Mummy," another brutal episode of "The Black Cat," and part one of "The Duc de L'Omelette!" EXTRA: Bonus illustrated prose stories!