Edgar Allen Poe is one of the most influential writers of literature. I've read his stories many times and they still thrill every time. Ask any of the current thriller authors about Edgar Allen Poe and they will tell you their favorite story. His life is almost as thrilling as his books. If you have not read any Edgar Allen Poe, I consider you an under privileged individual. You should get your own copy, find a quiet place with plenty of light....do not read his books with the lights off...and enjoy the ride.

In all honesty, I first had interest in this book for the story "The Fall of the House of Usher." After reading it, though, I had found that the other stories intrigued me more! The art style isn't typical of what I usually am drawn to, but it actually went very well with Poe's stories. I highly recommend this manga if you're a fan of Poe!

The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a worthy compilation of the horror master’s most popular tales, adapted to a sleek manga style. Each is the exact dialogue and malcontent spirit of the original, and each features a different artist.

If this does not motivate you to get to know Poe better, nothing ever will.
Thank you to everyone involved in the marketing and supplying of this ARC. Thank you Netgally for granting me this from the wish list.

This is a neat manga style interpretation of Edgar Allen Poet's writing. As a PowerBook this would incredibly awesome. As an ebook, it is read backwards, which takes a little getting used to. The illustrations are well done and the text us true to Edgar Allen Poe. Would be nice for middle school or high school aged kids reading Poe's work as supplement to aid understanding.

Great manga/comic book about the legend himself. This book is beautifully illustrated and the story is really gripping. The poems just live for themselves in this book.

Description: The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories: The Tell Tale Heart (a murder’s haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secretes). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of ‘the Plague’), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover’s decline into madness). Best read in a dimly-lit room with the curtains drawn, Poe’s brilliant works come to life in darkly thrilling ways in this Manga Classic adaptation.

I love Edgar Allen Poe, the creepiness of his stories. His stories are great to read in the fall. To get you in the mood of everything fall. He knows where to get you especially when you read them late at night in the dark. There is not of story of his that I don’t like. I can read his stories any time of the year. He creates such atmosphere within each one he has written. I would always recommend his stories.

The Tell-Tale Heart: Something about the added illustrations adds so much more horror to the story itself. The text itself seemed to be directly taken from Poe's tale, but the depth and intensity of the illustrations, especially the narrator's facial expressions, added a whole other layer to the tales.

The Cask of Amontillado: While I still enjoyed the illustrations, they didn't add as much to the story as with The Tell-Tale Heart. This may be due to how well the original tale already was at inspiring horror, and the illustrations could not top that.

The Raven - While I liked the artistic style of this story, and the illustrations in general, I'm not sure if they were the best match for the story. The narrator/main character almost seems too young, and the lighting of most of the panels seems oddly white/bright for a spooky story. This led to the story being less scary, even though the sorrow and other emotions still came through.

The Masque of the Red Death - I had actually completely forgotten I had read this story until I recognized the opening scene. Once again, I quite liked the chosen illustrations for everything, and especially liked how well they brought to life the descriptions of the revels! However, with such bright color and joy pictured clearly, it obscured the gloom creeping up in the story, which may be both good and bad.

The Fall of the House of Usher: This seems to be the only tale I didn't have prior experience with. I feel as if this made me focus too much on the text, and working to understand the story, rather than on the illustrations and how well they worked together. The main issue I did notice here was that the story itself is already extremely description heavy, so the illustrations sometimes felt unnecessary. However, the extreme caricatures of Usher definitely worked in the story's favor, as it allowed me to much more easily picture and understand how affected he was.

Overall, I felt this was a quite solid "Manga Classic," and I loved what it did for Poe's legendary tales. Not only did the illustrations add (for the most part) to the dark and gloomy descriptions and settings of Poe's tales, they also worked to pace the reader, and make us take time with each line, each image, truly letting the emotion and depth of the tale sink in before moving on to the next page.

Edgar Allen Poe’s writings have always been a favorite of mine. I originally read all of the poems/short stories in this manga adaptation years ago, with the exception of The Fall of The House of Usher.

While I highly recommend reading his work, I think this manga is enjoyable, and could also assist in understanding of the works. With art to go along with each story, it makes it much easier to follow what’s actually happening.

My only criticism was that sometimes the drawings were very sparse in detail. I’ve read a few of the other Manga Classics and I found this one to be my least favorite in terms of the art. The Raven And The Tell Tale Heart being the exceptions were well drawn and even beautiful at times.

I Love the Darkness of all the stories! Just up my alley with this book! Will always love them. My favs are The Tell Tale Heart and The Raven of his collections but I just hated The Black Cat... it made me cry being a person who loves animals!

I've recently discovered graphic novels and this was my first Manga book. As someone who grew up loving Edgar Allen Poe, I was sceptical about the format and I have to admit that I wasn't sure I'd ever be someone who enjoyed Manga. But this book is great; it's dark and really draws you in.

It took me a few pages to get into the rhythm of reading it (back to front and there is a method to reading the panels) but once I had I loved it.

Highly recommended.

Many thanks to Udon Entertainment and NetGalley for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book to read and review.

I have always loved Edgar Allan Poe and his dark twisty stories. They are the perfect thing to read at night.

The art work was perfectly done for the stories. It was eerie and creepy, which in my opinion made the stories even better.

I gave this book a 5/5 stars. I will recommend this to everyone and anyone who will listen to me rave about it!

I have read and reviewed almost all manga renditions of great classics in literature by Udon Entertainment and they never fail to amaze me at how faithfully they manage to render the written word in visual form. This is even more true for Poe's tales of horror so keep that in mind if you belong to the faint of heart because the tension is real and tangible. Congratulations for one more excellent addition to their collection of manga classics.

I am really impressed with how Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales were adapted into manga. It was fun and gave a whole new perspective to the macabre classics that we all know and love.

The art is beautiful, ghastly, and eye-catching. My favorite was "The Tell-tale Heart. The art worked so perfect with the story; they all did, but this one was my favorite.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves Edgar Allan Poe and horror manga.

Stories included: The Tell-tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher.

This book was my first MANGA and after I got the hang of it, I was able to read it comfortably.

I am familiar with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and this book of his stories was brilliantly illustrated and rendered for easy reading..

I have decided that I want to go back to the classics and reread them and this is a great way to do it. I look forward to reading some of the other classics in this format.

Honestly, I enjoyed reading my favorite Poe tales with illustrations. They are still just as creepy as the first time I read them. I highly suggest reading this graphic novel during a storm and by candle light, it makes it so much better.

Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favorite authors. This coupling of his work with a manga is superb. If you are not sure about having J-horror manga on your shelves, this would be a great alternative. Or if you do have J-horror manga (thinking Junji Ito), this would be great in the Teens/Young Adult section to bring in new readers. Don't know about children. There are some scenes of body horror in The Fall of the House of Usher and the general themes of murder and madness make it for older readers.

I have to say, I really enjoyed this version of Poe's work. This collection has 5 of Poe's famous stories, from the ever popular "The Raven" (which was my favorite of the bunch) and "The Tell-Tale Heart" to "The Fall of the House of Usher." There's something so chilling about seeing the words come to life in the artwork, each story took on a whole new level of creepiness, which I loved. And let's talk about the artwork for a moment-- every story is depicted so wonderfully and with such detail. Everyone knows these stories, but reading them in this form brings a whole new perspective in such a cool different way. Besides the stories themselves, there's also some facts about Poe and tidbits about his work in here as well. I would've loved to have seen "Annabel Lee" done, but overall I thought this was great. I read the whole thing in one sitting. This is definitely one to pick up if you're a fan of Poe or horror in general.

As a manga fan, I was really surprised and interested when I saw that there is an actual adaptation to Poe's poems and short-stories. I would definitely recommend this manga to every Edgar Allan Poe fan. The stories are well-known and very good just like the characters, though the art was not that appealing and for me it lacked some things.

This graphic novel includes: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher.

Overall it was very enjoyable. 4 stars.

Udon Entertainment and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of Manga Classics: The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe. I was under no obligation to review this book and my opinion is freely given.

Written in a genre that I scarcely read, I was dubious that some of the most famous words of Edgar Allan Poe would translate to the medium in a way that readers would understand. As a huge fan of Poe and his body of work, I was pleasantly surprised as to how well the author and illustrator were able to express Poe's intentions.

This graphic novel includes: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher. With a few strokes of ink and Poe's words, all of the stories were well adapted from the original. I found it hard to pick a favorite, as this book represents the best works of the author. The Tell-tale Heart was a good choice for the beginning, as it sets the tone for the rest of the book. Readers will be able to appreciate the horror aspects of some of the stories and the overall sadness that the words of Poe evoke. Manga Classics: The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a great introduction to readers who may not have chosen this author in his original medium. I highly recommend this graphic novel, as well as the other Manga Classics by this author.