John Buckland Wright’s illustrations for Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales (Halcyon Press, 1932, in an edition of 175):
From the collection of Richard Sica
“The Man in the Crowd”
“The Pit and the Pendulum”
“The Cask of Amontillado”
“The Premature Burial”
“A Descent into the Maelstrom”
“Ligeia”
“The Island of the Bay”
“The Masque of the Red Death”
“MS Found in a Bottle”
“The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion”
Read about the illustrator and see more of his work at this University of Otago site.
Previous posts from Richard Sica’s collection:
The Sphinx (John Buckland Wright’s first book)
Whettering the Scythe
Alexeieff’s Queen of Spades
Suffocating in the Villa des Charmes
A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles
L’Abbé de l’Abbaye
Alexeieff’s Fall
Les Fleurs du Skull
La Danse Macabre
Ex Libris Mr. Reaper
Ex Bibliotheca Macabrum
Happy Walpurgisnacht
Also see:
E. McKnight Kauffer’s Poe illustrations
Harry Clarke, illustrations for Poe
