Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror: Volume Two

by Mark Russell, Paul Cornell, Alisa Kwitney, Peter Snejberg (Illustrator), Linda Medley (Illustrator)

Overview

AHOY Comics’ snarky anthology-slash-desecration of Edgar Allan Poe returns for a second volume!

AHOY Comics’ snarky anthology-slash-desecration of Edgar Allan Poe returns for a second volume, featuring more of the popular “Monster Serials” by Mark Russell (SECOND COMING) and Peter Snejbjerg (The Books of Magic), as well as Dean Motter and Alex Ogle’s ultimate Poe mashup, “The Tell-Tale Black Cask of Usher.” Plus more than a dozen additional comics stories, a generous selection of short “Poe and the Black Cat” strips by Hunt Emerson, and horrific bonus prose stories and poetry, too.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780998044293
Publisher:	AHOY Comics
Publication date:	10/06/2020
Series:	Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror , #2
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

Mark Russell is the GLAAD and Eisner Award-winning writer behind The Flintstones, Second Coming, Billionaire Island, Superman: Space Age and Batman: Dark Age, as well as many other comic book series. He is also the author of two books.



PAUL CORNELL is a writer of science fiction and fantasy in prose, comics and TV, one of only two people to be Hugo Award-nominated for all three media. He’s written Doctor Who for the BBC, Action Comics for DC, and Wolverine for Marvel. He’s won the BSFA Award for his short fiction, an Eagle Award for his comics, and shares in a Writer’s Guild Award for his television. He lives in Gloucestershire with his wife and son.

Alisa Kwitney was an editor at DC Comics/Vertigo and is the Eisner-nominated author of graphic novels, romantic women’s fiction, and urban fantasy. She was one of the authors of A Flight of Angels, which made YALSA’s Top Ten List for Great Graphic Novels for Teens, and the YA graphic novel Token, named a highlight of the Minx imprint by PW. Alisa has an MFA from Columbia University. Her thesis, Till the Fat Lady Sings, a comedy of manners about college and eating disorders, made The New York Times’ new and noteworthy in paperback list. Her latest novel, Rogue: Untouched, was published with Aconyte Books in May 2021.

Peter Snejbjerg draws drawings for a living and has done so for many years. He has worked for a number of American and international comic book publishers. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Linda Medley has illustrated children's books for Putnam, Grosset &
Dunlap, Houghton-Mifflin, and Western Publishing. She has worked in
the comics industry since 1987 as a writer, penciller, inker, painter,
and colorist; her work can be found in everything from Justice League
to The Galactic Girl Guides. She is best known as the creator of the
Eisner Award-winning fantasy series Castle Waiting.

RICK GEARY has been a freelance cartoonist and illustrator for over 45 years. His illustrations and graphic stories have appeared in National Lampoon, MAD, The New York Times, Heavy Metal, Disney Adventures, and many other publications. His graphic novels include the biographies J. Edgar Hoover and Trotsky and the fictional murder mystery Louise Brooks: Detective. He has completed nine volumes in the series A Treasury of Victorian Murder and six volumes in A Treasury of 20th Century Murder, the latest of which is Black Dahlia.

Editorial Reviews

For those looking for a twist on MAD Magazine that includes the input of one of America's finest writers, AHOY Comics has just the thing: EDGAR ALLAN POE'S SNIFTER OF TERROR, a comic book anthology that sees comic book writers and artists re-examine some of Poe's short stories to uncover some of today's true horrors - with a helping of satire on the side, of course.

Hollywood Reporter

A must-buy book for fans of Edgar Allan Poe or a good laugh.

SciFi Pulse

The Leprechaun King is another story here that we need to see more of... It's dark, eerie and steeped in both mythology and ancient lore while poking fun at say something Magically delicious or hanging out in the Crisped Rice Tavern. ... Captivating and mesmerising.” -
READING WITH A FLIGHT RING





"EDGAR ALLAN POE'S SNIFTER OF
TERROR continues to be one of the best in the AHOY Comics line as well as one of the best comics available today. ... As is often the case with AHOY
Comics, the opening story is worth the price of admission alone .... It's still fun to consider just how much variety readers get with AHOY Comics as they read a poem immediately following a sci-fi/horror about a smart car and a murderous lobbyist." - Adventures In
Poor Taste




“The Black Cat was very intriguing and had myself on the edge of my seat. ... You just feel the Poe in this story and just want more and more.” -
DROP THE SPOTLIGHT





"This is a must-buy book for fans of Edgar
Allan Poe or a good laugh. ...If you want fun and horror, you want EDGAR ALLAN
POE'S SNIFTER OF TERROR Season Two. Recommended. Overall grade: A-"

―
SciFiPulse




"The series' format and tone are intentionally reminiscent of EC comics and the like, albeit with modern stylistic choices and trimming suitable for an issue of MAD magazine. It's a very strange conceptual blend that doesn't sound like it should work but manages to captivate and entertain all the same.... it actually feels like a miniature version of the various magazines that it takes inspiration from. There's a very, very MAD-esque bonus short at the end of the issue, as well as a short story and a few poems
[which] add a feeling of fullness to the book.
"
-
HORROR
BUZZ



“To anybody who ever said horror needed to be serious, we can simply point to EDGAR ALLAN POE'S SNIFTER OF
TERROR from Ahoy Comics. Taking classic tales from the legendary writer and giving them a... new spin, the second series shows that there is no limit to what horrifying stories can be made absolutely ridiculous.”
-
SCREEN RANT

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