The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound.
« Goose.
The Tell-Tale Heart.
« Goose.
I love it. That slowly building paranoia in his eyes.
I’d rather hear the heart than smell the decomposing body parts.
I love this one too, and Busterggi, I’m with you.
Amazing expression on his face.
Back in the 80s a friend of mine and I programmed his DX-7 synthesizer to do a “tell tell heart” track. It’d start down in the bass register so you could not even hear it, but slowly came to just about audible, and then back. It was a great thing to leave running.
Oh, I’d love that, I’d play it on a loop. I love weird things like that. I usually find them comforting, like the thunderstorms I play at night.
Re the drawing, I’m most fascinated by the floor -- you can hear the heartbeat, looking at it.
And the (right) side plants, all the hearts, and that gigantic eyeball! Fabulous.