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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  For Jim Hill
  
  
  I said: Pain and sorrow.
  
  
  He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
  
  
  —Rumi
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## PART ONE
  
  
  ## Dreamland
  
  
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  Dream-Land
  
  
  By Edgar Allan Poe
  
  
  By a route obscure and lonely,
  
  
  Haunted by ill angels only,
  
  
  Where an Eidolon, named Night,
  
  
  On a black thro