- The Pit & The Pendulum
for E.A. Poe’s Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1923 ed.)
Illustrated by Harry Clarke
via A Journey Round My Skull

   “I had not counted in vain upon their voracity…They (rats) writhed upon my throat; their cold lips sought my own; I was half stifled by their thronging pressure; disgust, for which the world has no name, swelled my bosom, and chilled, with a heavy clamminess, my heart…”

- Illustration for Poe’s ‘The Premature Burial’
by Harry Clarke (1883-1931)
via A Journey Round My Skull 
(more Clarke/Poe illustrations)

“There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.”
- Edgar Allen Poe, on ‘The Premature Burial’
 

- ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’
by Harry Clarke (1889-1931)
via A Journey Round My Skull

- Illustration from Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1923)
by Harry Clarke
via coilhouse via A Journey Round My Skull