Edgar Allan Poe's the Conqueror Worm

Richard Corben adapts Edgar Allan Poe’s feverish poem into a single, visceral comic from Dark Horse (2012). The artist-writer brings his signature grotesque, detailed style to Poe’s vision of a monstrous worm that devours kings and conquerors alike. This one-shot matters as a potent, standalone fusion of two masters of the macabre—Poe’s gothic verse and Corben’s flesh-and-fantasy illustration.