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    Todd Jordan
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  • Edgar Allen Poe's Spirits of the Dead



    Published by: Dark Horse Comics
    Released on: Oct. 1, 2014
    Writer: Richard Corben
    Artist: Richard Corben
    Cover artist: Richard Corben
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    In case you didn't notice, over the last few years Dark Horse has published Edgar Allen Poe stories, newly adapted by the legendary and amazing Richard Corben. A man beyond mere praise, Corben has created all new tales based on Poe's famous works, and narrated with the help of Mag the Hag, a nasty old lady with stretched-out and pendulous boobs under the robe she wears. Once in a while she even gets involved in the story. The various tales within were originally published in a series of one-shots and a number of Dark Horse Presents (volume two) issues, and are collected here in one place. There are no less than fifteen stories packed into these pages, and in the tradition of horror comics from the days of old; these stories could have shown up in any issues of Creepy or Eerie. And although ANY Corben material is a welcome thing, new material is an extra special treat.

    The collection holds a couple of items other than the stories themselves: an introduction by M. Thomas Inge, an expert on Poe according to his little biography at the end of the intro, and also included is a cover gallery from the one-shots that make up this collection. What follows is a list of the stories Mr. Corben adapts in a way only he can, and a handful of highlighted vignettes are summarized. But every frickin' page makes this reader giddy.
    • Spirits of the Dead (this is actually a one-page poem, text only)
    • Alone
    • The City of the Sea
    • The Sleeper. Angus returns to his former home, now in ruins and overgrowth. Remembering the past, he married his wife for hermoney (it was her mansion) and she let him know she'd had enough of his crap. He was boinking Amelia the maid and she knew it, and she wanted a divorce. That of course was out of the question for Angus, and he uses his lover to kill the mistress of the house by lying to her about his wife not letting him get divorced from her so the he can run off with Amelia. Amelia quickly learns of the lie and so she dies too. Back from Memory Lane, Angus visits the graveyard on the rundown estate. Can you smell the vengeance-seeking corpse from beyond the grave? Sure you can.
    • The Assignation
    • Berenice. A man's bride-to-be suddenly dies days before their wedding. She came into life when he was a much younger man, a boy really, when his old and dying mother brought the big-toothed lady into the house as a servant. After the mom dies, the seemingly dim-witted man agrees to her proposal of marriage to better serve the wealthy fool as a wife rather than someone who simply cares for him for pay. After Berenice the maid dies, more is revealed about her mysterious death, but what really concerns Egaeus is her teeth. When she lay in the coffin, those teeth became more than Egaeus could handle.
    • Morella. “Morella” is the story of a fellow who loathes his wife, Morella, who practices magic with Mag the Hag. At his wits end, Myron Osborn demands a divorce and she gives him the boot; but she's not done with him yet. She suddenly is stricken with a terminal illness and in her “last” breath Morella reveals she has a daughter from another man that Myron never knew about, a lass named Orella. Very clever, she took off the “M”. When Orella shows up, she is of course a spitting image of her mother, and Myron falls for her like he did her mother. Which makes perfect sense; same woman. When he finds out the truth he blows some wiring in his brain and things end with a splash.
    • Shadow
    • The Fall of the House of Usher
    • The Murders in the Rue Morgue. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” tells of two men in the city of Paris in 1841, intrigued by a murder in the Rue Morgue. One man, a Sherlock Holmes type, wants to prove how smart he is to his buddy so he takes him to the crime scene, which still has the bodies present. The scene: a decapitated old woman on t he floor and her daughter, broken and crammed up the chimney. A discovery of coarse hair in one victims hand leads the smug man to his conclusion, but now needs the evidence. This steers them to Gaston, who tells them exactly what they want to know which he quickly decides is too much. Before things go south for the two gents on their little mystery fun tour, karma catches up with Gaston.
    • The Masque of the Red Death
    • The Conqueror Worm
    • The Premature Burial. The Premature Burial is the story of a sex-crazed man trying to get sloppy with his girl, only to be shut down. He'll get no sex from her until the marriage vows are said. That won't do, so he kills her and later, on the eve of her burial, he digs her up. Necrophilia ensues, but she isn't dead and wakes from her apparent demise. The struggle between them ends with HIM getting killed, and then waking up in HIS grave as he wasn't dead. He gets out of the tomb alive to continue on with life…or does he?
    • The Raven
    • The Cask of the Amontillado. The Cask of the Amontillado, is about a guy called Montresor who buries his friend Fortunato alive and then brings the poor sap's widow down to tell her how he killed her husband. The fat lush Fortunato wanted to try Montresor's wine, the amontillado, and made Montresor bring him into the family vaults for a taste of the famous wine. This of course was what Montresor wanted all along, and tricked Fortunato (unfortunately named) into thinking he was calling the shots as they marched onward and deeper into the vaults. But that taste of the elusive wine never came to the drunken glutton. Instead his friend bricked him up into the walls to die a slow and lonely death. Now, he merely wants to confess and gloat about his getting away with murder before he takes his own life down in the tombs.

    This volume has it all: blood and guts, rotting corpses, revenge from the grave, sadistic murder, sex, and monsters. And those who know Corben, know he pulls no punches. Apologies to the sensitive, but you're a real chump if let this collection pass you by.





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