Бенжамен Лакомб - Страшные рассказы - Эдгар Аллан По

The "Metamorphoses" collection presents great works of world literature as interpreted by talented contemporary illustrators. Just as the ancient Roman poet Ovid in his poem Metamorphoses tells about the various transformations that have occurred since the Creation of the world, so modern artists, turning to the classical text, reinterpret it into unique artistic images.

Benjamin Lacombe. A talented French illustrator whose work changed the idea of ​​book design. Times magazine named him one of the ten best illustrators in the world for his book - "Cherry and Olive".

As a child, the artist loved Edgar Allan Poe's Scary Stories and is happy that he had the opportunity to illustrate them. The new book "Scary Stories" by Edgar Poe envelops the work of the American writer in a glam-gothic atmosphere.

However, the original illustrations by the French artist Benjamin Lacombe refer to a variety of cultural realities. The luxury and color of French living rooms, articulated Asian dolls, strict antique portraits, Victorian motifs...

This book is not recommended for people under the age of 16, people falling into hypochondria and melancholy. People who fix their attention on little things. And now I’m not talking about important little things that chain thoughts to themselves, giving birth to chains of others, when what is subsequently important is not the first link, but the chain itself or its culmination. If someone's teeth can hold your attention, then run away from this book and better go on the way to a psychiatrist. Because I can't vouch for the consequences.

Perhaps you will simply see life in a painted face, when it really remains only there. Or, perhaps, something more terrible than illness will take possession of you, when your whole being is trying to reach the very bottom, so as not to push off and float up, but to remain there forever, occasionally hearing echoes of your former self.

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This is “Scary Stories” by Edgar Allan Poe - a master of sophisticated mystification that keeps you in suspense with his style, or rather the beauty of his style. He is in every story. I see his shadow or the shadow of a shadow, but he stands behind each of his heroes, speaking in different voices.

This is Benjamin Lacombe, who embodied images that attract and frighten simultaneously. Fascinating. For me there is no more graceful Gothic that could better set off Poe's work.