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ianbrooks:

Poe Visualized by Harry Clarke

From the 1919 deluxe edition of Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Harry Clarke reached deep into those dark, flinching corners underneath the bed and ripped out the grotesque horrors that lurked within, creating these macabre illustrations that accompanied Poe’s disturbing classics like “The Pit and the Pendulum” and the “The Telltale Heart” perfectly. In the same vein as Stephen Gammell’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark monstrosities decades later, these illustrations are sufficient evidence that while some stories can be even more frightening when left to your imagination, it takes a truly visceral artist to give those shadows form and really scare the bejeezus out of you.

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Harry Clarke is fucking amazing. My step father owns an original copy of the 1919 Poe book these illuatrations are featured in. I used to sit there and carefully pour over those frightening, gorgeous, intricate drawings. Really, look him up.

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bill—maplewood:

 What if there really were creatures on other planets?

1. Titan: On dim, cold Titan, Saturn’s distant moon, stovebellies might live - perhaps by the icy shores of a methane sea. To avoid freezing, they keep fires burning inside their bodies. How? Stovebellies eat ice, which forms much of the Titan’s surface. Their fuel is made of oxygen from the ice and methane from the dense atmosphere. By squirting flame like a rocket, they can make long leaps in Titan’s low gravity. Amphibious fishimanders like to crawl out of the sea and cuddle by a handy stovebelly for warmth - until their host blasts off, sending its guests flying. 

2. Mars: The Martian waterseeker. Its parasol tail can lift three meters in Mars’ low gravity, shading it from ulraviolet sunburn. The long snout can probe for pockets of ice under dried-up channels. And the giant ears, needed to hear well in the thin air, also serve as blankets: In Mars’ frigid nights the waterseeker stays snug by clamping its ears tightly around its whole body. 

3. Europa: Flat ice covers the second of Jupiter’s four major satellites. Europa may be the smoothest globe in the Solar System. And here the brinker-roos might frolic, on feet shaped like skates. They lead a carefree life, living on pure energy as they zoom across the endless frozen plains. Since there’s no air to breathe and no food to eat, brinker-roos need no mouths or noses. Their green skins can carry out photosynthesis in sunlight, as plants do. And the coils on their backs pick up energy from Jupiter’s strong magnetic field, which Europa must travel through as it orbits the giant planet. 

4. Venus: To survive Venus’ heat - lead would melt here - you might need a body that feeds on rock and metal. This oucher-poucher snacks on a space probe from the Earth. Venus’s surface is so hot that oucher-pouchers keep shifting from one foot to the other. They travel by inflating their pouchlike bodies and bouncing along the ground. Every time one lands, it utters its customary cry, which sounds remarkably like “ouch!” 

5. Jupiter: From birth to death, any life in Jupiter’s wild atmosphere would have to stay airborne (right) - there’s no place to stand. Hanging from their gasbags, floating jellyblimps would be easy prey for hungry swordtails. A swordtail uses Jupiter’s strong gravity and its own pointed body to dive right through its victim. all creatures here must avoid winds blowing toward the freezing layers above or the scorching pressures below. 

From National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe by Roy. A. Gallant.

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Paintings by Steven DaLuz

• Prevailed (Wounded Angel)
• Gilded Wings