The Best of Poe

Pendulum Press’s 1977 one-shot The Best of Poe adapts Edgar Allan Poe’s most chilling tales into comic form, with Naunerle Farr translating the author’s gothic prose for the page and Gerry Talaoc providing the moody, atmospheric art. This single issue distills Poe’s essential horrors—madness, revenge, and the macabre—into a visual medium, making it a compact gateway for newcomers to the master of suspense.