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Haunt of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe #1-3
Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft
Presenting one incredible collection of classic tales re-imagined by legendary horror artist Richard Corben. First, it's Edgar Allan Poe as you've never seen him before. Classic Poe stories and poems are transformed into weird and disturbing new comic-book fantasies, with the original Poe texts printed alongside the new tales as an added bonus. It's a frightening new presentation of Poe-inspired murder, madness and monstrosities! Then, Corben brings you a bold new interpretation full of eerie new spins on the poems and short stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Each adaptations is beautifully rendered in black and white with gray tones as only Corben can do it - along with a printing of the original source text by H.P. Lovecraft. Collects Haunt of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe #1-3, and Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft #1-3.
112 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2009
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Richard Corben
504 books120 followersAmerican illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine. He won the 2009 Spectrum Grand Master Award. In 2012 he was elected to the The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
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October 4, 2022
Haunt of Horror is a collection of Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft adaptations that Richard Corben illustrated for the Marvel Max imprint. The Poe stories have a sweaty grottiness that is more Vampirella than Spider-Man, but Corben being Corben, the grime is always fresh, never stale. The art for the Lovecraft tales was always interesting, but the scripts didn't have quite the same sweaty intensity as the earlier Poe series.
February 20, 2021
En realidad, 2.5 mis estrellas para este libro.
En cuanto a los relatos, muy buenos. Unos muy poéticos, otros muy creativos, originales pero, ninguno me impacto tanto como para darme miedo o algo similar.
También las ilustraciones no me ayudaron. Por alguna razón mi cerebro no estaba de acuerdo en cómo se había decidido ilustrar cada narración. Lo acabé por acabar no por realmente quererlo así.
En cuanto a los relatos, muy buenos. Unos muy poéticos, otros muy creativos, originales pero, ninguno me impacto tanto como para darme miedo o algo similar.
También las ilustraciones no me ayudaron. Por alguna razón mi cerebro no estaba de acuerdo en cómo se había decidido ilustrar cada narración. Lo acabé por acabar no por realmente quererlo así.
July 21, 2022
Una colección de buenas historias y poemas (de ahí las 2 estrellas) extrañamente ilustrados e innecesariamente reinterpretados de formas que ni estéticamente ni argumentalmente añadían valor; la mayoría de las veces demeritaban al original.
Me encontré a mí mismo saltándome las interpretaciones en estilo novela gráfica para poder leer el original en prácticamente toda la segunda mitad de la compilación.
Sólo dos o tres versiones me parecieron interesantes y aun así el estilo de dibujo limitaba mucho la comprensión y el impacto.
Puede tener sentido para adolescentes como una primer aproximación a los autores, pero trata varios temas claramente "adultos", por lo que no hace mucho sentido.
Me encontré a mí mismo saltándome las interpretaciones en estilo novela gráfica para poder leer el original en prácticamente toda la segunda mitad de la compilación.
Sólo dos o tres versiones me parecieron interesantes y aun así el estilo de dibujo limitaba mucho la comprensión y el impacto.
Puede tener sentido para adolescentes como una primer aproximación a los autores, pero trata varios temas claramente "adultos", por lo que no hace mucho sentido.
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November 1, 2022
4 for Corben alone! Definitely more partial to Lovecraft, as deciphering Poe-try is tricky sometimes. Great spooky anthology.
November 19, 2022
Interesting art. Short stories based on HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe’s works, but don't care for some of the interpretations.
September 24, 2016
Perhaps my three star review is harsher because I came with impossibly high hopes. A collection of Poe and Lovecraft with art by a famed Eerie and Creepy artist? Could there be anything that would be better? Corben is an artist that, like Wrightson who I reviewed earlier, kept a tradition of horror art alive. Poe and Lovecraft are, arguably, the best known of the horror genre of their time, creating and redefining the field. So, what went wrong for me? The work seemed to alter the classics. Corben's art has voice and passion in it, but the slight changes to Poe's work and Lovecraft's structures are present and troublesome. For instance, the slight change to the end of The Tell-Tale Heart adds nothing new to the tale and create a rather problematic change for me as a reader. To the lasting value of the book, each visual telling is followed by the individual author's original text and of course, Corben's art adds immeasurable value, but for the diehard Poe or Lovecraft enthusiast, the alterations may detract and the work may seem less than it should be. Still, stunning visuals abound. This is one for the art, not the attempted retread or reimagining of Poe and Lovecraft.
I would recommend it to fans, but be aware of its limitation - it does not shine as bright as what Corben's deserves or what Poe and Lovecraft can produce.
I would recommend it to fans, but be aware of its limitation - it does not shine as bright as what Corben's deserves or what Poe and Lovecraft can produce.
June 30, 2011
Got this $30 book used for $15 at Bookman's and then saw it for $10 at another Bookman's used books store. Bought it for the Corben art mainly. I like that the stories are adapted from Poe and Lovecraft, but I wasn't wild about the price tag nor the text part. You see, the publisher includes the text pieces of every short story or poem after it is first adapted in a comic book style. If that raised the cost of the book then I wish they hadn't done that as I already own prose books by Poe and Lovecraft. I get why they did it, but if I want text then I'll read the text. Besides, the comic stories take certain liberties and modernize the poems anyway. In fact, there's one tale about black ghetto violence on the street, which obviously has nothing to do with the original author's work.
June 17, 2014
Amazing Corben Art, But Weak Adaptations
With consistently astounding black and white Richard Corben art, this book is really nice to look at. It's a mixed bag to read though. Digging into some of the adaptations, I wondered if they had even bothered to read the source material or if they were going on vague memories. I'm fine with liberties being taken, and the stories in this book that work best for me in which the authors went way outside the box, like the adaptation of Poe's "Eulalie." Some of the liberties taken were just nonsensical though. I still don't get what was going on with this version of "The Raven." Some of the problems seem to be the result of brevity. It's all very frustrating.
With consistently astounding black and white Richard Corben art, this book is really nice to look at. It's a mixed bag to read though. Digging into some of the adaptations, I wondered if they had even bothered to read the source material or if they were going on vague memories. I'm fine with liberties being taken, and the stories in this book that work best for me in which the authors went way outside the box, like the adaptation of Poe's "Eulalie." Some of the liberties taken were just nonsensical though. I still don't get what was going on with this version of "The Raven." Some of the problems seem to be the result of brevity. It's all very frustrating.
February 23, 2019
¡Oh por dios! me encantó tanto esta antología...
Empezaré por decir que soy Team Lovecraft y me hubiese gustado cerrar con él y no con Poe, pero esos son detalles. El libro empieza alto con Dagón una de mis historias favoritas del escritor; y a decir verdad, no conocía la mayoría de los poemas que nos ilustra Richard acá. He quedado totalmente enamorada y endiosada de "La música de Erich Zann" y "Un recuerdo", aunque he amado cada una de las historias.
Leí algunas reseñas que mencionan que no disfrutaron las ilustraciones; por el contrario, yo las adoré, son oscuras, tétricas, lúgubres y la interpretación que hace Corben de cada una de las obras me pareció sublime. Y ni qué decir de la edición es hermosísima, más de estas entregas hacen falta.
Empezaré por decir que soy Team Lovecraft y me hubiese gustado cerrar con él y no con Poe, pero esos son detalles. El libro empieza alto con Dagón una de mis historias favoritas del escritor; y a decir verdad, no conocía la mayoría de los poemas que nos ilustra Richard acá. He quedado totalmente enamorada y endiosada de "La música de Erich Zann" y "Un recuerdo", aunque he amado cada una de las historias.
Leí algunas reseñas que mencionan que no disfrutaron las ilustraciones; por el contrario, yo las adoré, son oscuras, tétricas, lúgubres y la interpretación que hace Corben de cada una de las obras me pareció sublime. Y ni qué decir de la edición es hermosísima, más de estas entregas hacen falta.
June 29, 2011
I would recommend this book mostly on the power of Richard Corben's art. The creative license involved in adapting Poe's and Lovecraft's stories is a bit hit-or-miss. Also, the artist does not always pull off the narrative in a cohesive fashion in several of the stories. You can't just have characters popping in and out of short stories with no explanation as to who they are. It throws off the whole story.
Hopefully more of the stuff that Corben drew in Heavy Metal and other similar magazines will one day make it into graphic novel form. Then I would not be picking up this mediocre Marvel junk.
Hopefully more of the stuff that Corben drew in Heavy Metal and other similar magazines will one day make it into graphic novel form. Then I would not be picking up this mediocre Marvel junk.
June 22, 2016
I really, really wanted to rate this book higher. I like the works of Poe and I love most of Lovecrafts, but this here never really got to me.
The art is pretty nice and often fitting the stories. But the interpretations of the stories are very hit or miss, mostly misses unfortunately.
I wouldn't call it bad. It's just that Corbens interpretations of the stories don't fit with my own and so it feels as if he takes too much liberty as an artist.
In the end:
Nice and fitting art
Some pretty good stories
Not really my style
The art is pretty nice and often fitting the stories. But the interpretations of the stories are very hit or miss, mostly misses unfortunately.
I wouldn't call it bad. It's just that Corbens interpretations of the stories don't fit with my own and so it feels as if he takes too much liberty as an artist.
In the end:
Nice and fitting art
Some pretty good stories
Not really my style
March 26, 2013
Los dibujos de Corben me encantan, sin embargo siento que este no es de sus mejores trabajos. En cuanto a las historias, me sorprende que la mayoría estén basadas en poemas que en realidad no brindan suficiente material para una historia, por lo cual algunas parecen muy rebuscadas e incluso cuando se comparan con el texto original de Poe no tienen mucho que ver. Me hubiera gustado más que se basaran en otros relatos como "William Wilson" o "La fosa y el péndulo".
August 23, 2012
Amazing art, and decent, but not great stories based on Poe and Lovecraft.
June 21, 2019
Creative interpretations of Poe and Lovecraft by a great artist. I appreciate that some of the adaptations are more abstract than others; all add interpretive layers to the original works.
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