#ligeia

[charnel-grounds]

Hernán Conde de Boeck, “Ligeia,” 2020

[besotted-with-austen]

The Narrator of Ligeia: -and then my dead second wife became my dead first wife, only that she was actually alive!

Maxim de Winter: *sputtering* that-that is horrifying! How-

Heathcliff: *furiously taking notes* shut up, and you, tell me more-

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price - Tomb of Ligeia (1964)

[royallyturbulentmist]

GUYS

more edgar allen poe characters confirmed!

ligeia and rowena

they are from a short story about obsession and dying wives, (the usual) but basically ligeia dies (protagonists wife) and then his second wife rowena dies and is transformed/ressurected into ligeia

arthur

he’s from a novel called the narrative of arthur gordon pym of natucket. in the simplest way possible, arthur is from nantucket and went on a whaling ship. then witnesses mutiny and commits cannibalism. cool cool. he got in a shipwreck and resorted to cannibalism to survive in this tiny boat, then ran into violent natives, a supernatural boat sorta deal, and more funky stuff.

auguste

this guy’s a detective that’s like a genius. very good at problem solving and such. his last name is dupin and he pops up in three mystery short stories. basically the first sherlock holmes. the three are:

-the murders in the rue morgue (double homocide)

- the mystery of marie roget (based on a real life murder case)

-the purloined letter (this one is important)

the purloined letter is about auguste helping find a stolen letter that a minister is using to blackmail some royal woman. the police search the minister’s apartment but find nothing. auguste finds it “hidden” on the mantle and replaces it with a fake letter made to mislead the minister.

SO BASICALLY

this is totally about the letter that lenore wrote and some one finds it and blackmails either annabel or lenore or both but auguste helps them and yeah.

the theif is named as minister d, idk who that could allude to but yuh and the blackmail letter mentions something about romantic tryst or treason from the royal lady.

ALSO

UNRELATED

this panel is making me certain that morella is going to sacrifice herself to save lenore. we gon get a flash back of her saving her friends when she died.

FINAL THOUGHT

lenore got hotter

TLDR:

-ligeia and rowena are from the same story

-arthur had a crazy life and is probably slightly deranged from it

-auguste is going to help lenore and annabel with keeping the info in lenore’s letter confidential

-morella is going to sacrifice herself (i’m not crying you are)

-lenore is hot and we’re actually married she’s mine

oki bye

[checanty]

Wurmpalast All artworks for an Edgar Allan Poe inspired project by German musician RiG. Wurmpalast is a re-telling of Ligeia. You can check out the project here. Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Poe - art by Greg Hildebrandt (1986)

[soupexpertt]

Part 2 of Russian edition of classic books (part 1)

To answer some questions: no, it’s not AI, the artist’s name is listed on the back. It’s hardback. One book costs about 4,5 dollars.

More of my favs:

Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott (art by чаки-чаки)

2. A Hero of our Time by Mikhail Lermontov (art by NIKEL)

3. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (art by ulunii)

4. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (art by ALES)

5. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (art by ALES)

6. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (art by pogogu)

7. Emma by Jane Austen (art by Cactusute)

8. The Brothers Karamazov Part 1 and 2 by Fyodor Dostoevsky (art by汚い12)

9. The Same Old Story by Ivan Goncharov (art by lewisite)

10. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (art by Djuney9)

11. Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe (art by ALES)

[drosz]

I don’t know anything about these 2 but I will personally pay the creators of Nevermore (forgot their names sorry chat ✌️✌️) to make a side story abt them idc how long it takes I will wait 20 goddamn years of I have to

SLASH JOKE IM A BUM I COULDN'T PAY SHIT