If you like The Tell Tale Heart and Berenice, then you may want to get this book, a graphic novel adaptation of some of Edgar's most famous stories and poems. Here's what Michel Faber, writing in the Guardian, had to say about The Tell Tale Heart:
Slater also tackles "The Tell-Tale Heart", transplanting Poe's allegory of guilty conscience into a more morally ambiguous, post-Silence of the Lambs landscape. Annie, the female protagonist, is blind and works in a support centre for people who've recently lost their sight. She becomes convinced that a new arrival is supernaturally evil and must be killed. Annie's heightened sensitivity to touch and sound is rich in narrative potential which Slater only begins to exploit before allowing the story to lapse into predictability. Alice Duke's artwork - her first published comic - is superb and, unusually for this book, employs a subtle, luscious range of grey tones rather than stark black and white. A talent to watch.
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