Can someone please make an Edgar Allan Poe animated film in the spirit of Harry Clarke?
Okay, yes, there've been a few awesome Poe animations. James Mason narrating "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a stylish treat. And Jan Svankmajer's "The Pendulum, the Pit, and Hope" is a nasty point-of-view blend of stop-motion animation and live-action. If you haven't watched them before, minimize your work stuff and watch them right now. Your boss will understand. He loves Poe.
Seriously though, I mean...good God. I had no idea who this Harry Clarke person was before io9 mentioned him. I'm aware of the surreal work of Sidney Sime, and the comparatively realistic work of Gustave Dore, and I've brought up William Blake before. But this is so cool. Clarke's characters and settings don't seem to exist in a three-dimensional world, with their paper-cutout quality. Yet the drawings are so detailed. Every thread and every hair and every tiny chain is perfectly placed. It's an oddball combination, but it's kind of brilliant.
The gallery of illustrations show many pictures that I can't match to stories, as they're all unlabeled, but a few are obvious. Some of them...
"The Cask of Amontillado"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Masque of the Red Death"
"A Descent into the Maelstrom"
"Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
"The Premature Burial"
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