Les contes macabres

Benjamin Lacombe (born 12 July 1982 in Paris) is a French author, illustrator, and painter, widely regarded as one of the leading figures of contemporary French illustration. He trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris, entering in 2001. His graduation project, Cerise Griotte, became his first children's book, published by Seuil Jeunesse in 2006 and later released in the United States, where Time magazine named it one of the ten best children's books of 2007...

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in...