Tales of Mystery & Notification 🕯️🔴

What if Harry Clarke had illustrated our nightmares? In 1919 he drew Edgar Allan Poe's. I asked him to draw ours.

I went digging through the Public Domain Image Archive and found Clarke's 1919 plates for Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination: black-and-white ink by a Dublin stained-glass artist, all long pale fingers and dread. I trained ten of them into a Recraft style, Clarke Ink 1919.

Then I retold ten of Poe's tales as the horrors of the smartphone age. Each plate sits beside Clarke's original, and each caption is his own line with one word swapped: "the heart beat on with a muffled sound" became "the phone buzzed on". A man is buried alive in his inbox. The masked guest is a 99+ badge.

The only colour in the whole book is the red notification dot. The film ends inside Recraft, showing how it was made. @Recraft

Happy Halloween. The style is public, so try it yourself 👇

This is an example of how simple art can be turned into films. Everything is so refined and polished. I genuinely wanna know how did you come up with this?