Haunt of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe #[nn]

Richard Corben's stark black-and-white cover sets an immediately unsettling tone, presenting a skeletal raven with its beak thrown open in a silent shriek, looming over a gaunt, hollow-eyed human face below. The inkwork is raw and visceral, with organic splatters of shadow giving the composition a fevered, nightmarish quality that suits Poe's world perfectly. Marvel's 2006 horror anthology finds an ideal visual interpreter in Corben, whose every line here feels carved rather than drawn.