title: Nightmares In Decay: The Edgar Allan Poe Illustrations of Harry Clarke
author: Harry Clarke
description: Harry Clarke (1889-1931) was the greatest of all Irish stained glass artists, as well as a brilliant painter and book illustrator, comparable with Aubrey Beardsley, Edmund Dulac and Kay Nielsen, and influenced by the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. His illustration work included The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault, Faust by Goethe and Selected Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne - but his illustrations for Poe remain his dark masterpieces.
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  Proofed By MadMaxAU
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Foreword _by Kenneth Bulmer_
  
  
  
  
  
  [An Honest Day’s Work](../Text/Section0002.xhtml#harrison) _by Harry Harrison_
  
  
  
  
  
  [Evane](../Text/Section0003.xhtml#tubb) _by E. C. Tubb_
  
  
  
  
  
  [Rendezvous with Rama](../Text/Section0004.xhtml#clarke) _by Arthur C. Clarke_
  
  
  
  
  
  [Spacebird](../Text/Section0005.xhtml#white) _by James White_
  
  
  
  
  
  [Three Enigmas](../Text/Section0006.xhtml#aldiss) _by Brian_ _W. Aldiss_
  
  
  
  
  
  [Wise Child](../Text/Section0007.xhtml#rackham) _by John Rackham_
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Rules of the Game](../Text/Section0008.xhtml#wollheim) _by Donald A.
  Wollheim_
  
  
  
  
  
  [Monitor](../Text/Section0009.xhtml#bounds) _by Sydney J. Bounds_
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Time Wager](../Text/Section0010.xhtml#kippax) _by John Kippax_
  
  
  
  
  
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