Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, made to accompany Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. Beardsley, born on August 21, 1872, favored the grotesque and the erotic in his drawings and had a large influence on the developing the Art Nouveau style, though he lived only to twenty-five. He also illustrated work by Oscar Wilde and Alexander Pope and helped found The Yellow Book.

     From “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”

      From “The Black Cat.”

         From “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

      From “The Masque of the Red Death.”

  Edgar Allan Poe.

     From “The Black Cat.”

      From “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”