The project

Here’s how it works: Each season for one year, I will release a short story by Poe in the form of an illustrated, individually-bound softcover volume.

Poe worked as a magazine editor, so it seems only natural to adopt the format of a periodical as the organizing principle of a new anthology.

As with a magazine, you can subscribe – ensuring that you’ll receive all four volumes. Or you can collect issues one by one while supplies last.

Also like a magazine, each delivery will be a surprise – you’ll never know which story you’re going to get next. You’ll only know that every 12 weeks something thoughtfully designed, beautifully printed, and worth collecting is going to arrive in the mail.

4 by Poe isn’t going to be yet another cinderblock tome, printed on crummy paper, typeset by a designer who dares you to actually read the text, and embellished by an illustrator who operates from a safely detached position of irony.

This is going to be an illustrated collection for us grown-ups. One that approaches Poe’s stories of murder, mystery, and mayhem on their own beautiful, sensationalistic terms. One that highlights the black humor, celebrates the philosophical insights, and yes, revels in the violence.

A lifelong admirer of Poe’s work, I’m making the collection I always wanted but could never find.

Full Bleed Editions is proud to announce 4 by Poe, an illustrated collection of four short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Each story will be published quarterly as an individually-bound limited-edition softcover volume. This isn’t going to be your high school English teacher’s anthology.