John Byam Liston Shaw, A Dirge

Date: 1899
Technique: Oil on panel, 40.6 x 30.5 cm

John Byam Liston Shaw, There appeared to her Lorenzo in a dream, pale and distraught

From Tales from Boccaccio, done into english by Joseph Jacobs, London, 1899

John Byam Liston Shaw, Illustration for Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue in Selected Tales of Mystery

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1909

The sailor's face flushed up; he started to his feet and grasped his cudgel

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John Byam Liston Shaw, Illustration for Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum in Selected Tales of Mystery

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1909

They swarmed upon me in ever-accumulating heaps

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John Byam Liston Shaw, Illustration for Poe's Ligeia in Selected Tales of Mystery

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1909

The thing that was enshrouded advanced boldly and palpably into the middle of the apartment

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John Byam Liston Shaw, Illustration for Poe's The Masque of the Red Death in Selected Tales of Mystery

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1909

Darkness and decay and the red death held illimitable dominion over all

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John Byam Liston Shaw, Illustration for Poe's The Black Cat in Selected Tales of Mystery

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1909

I had walled the monster up within the living tomb!

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John Byam Liston Shaw, Illustration for Poe's Metzengerstein in Selected Tales of Mystery

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1909

A cloud of smoke settled heavily over the battlements in the distinct collosal figure of - a horse

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