The Tell-Tale Heart: Something about the added illustrations adds so much more horror to the story itself. The text itself seemed to be directly taken from Poe's tale, but the depth and intensity of the illustrations, especially the narrator's facial expressions, added a whole other layer to the tales.

The Cask of Amontillado: While I still enjoyed the illustrations, they didn't add as much to the story as with The Tell-Tale Heart. This may be due to how well the original tale already was at inspiring horror, and the illustrations could not top that.

The Raven - While I liked the artistic style of this story, and the illustrations in general, I'm not sure if they were the best match for the story. The narrator/main character almost seems too young, and the lighting of most of the panels seems oddly white/bright for a spooky story. This led to the story being less scary, even though the sorrow and other emotions still came through.

The Masque of the Red Death - I had actually completely forgotten I had read this story until I recognized the opening scene. Once again, I quite liked the chosen illustrations for everything, and especially liked how well they brought to life the descriptions of the revels! However, with such bright color and joy pictured clearly, it obscured the gloom creeping up in the story, which may be both good and bad.

The Fall of the House of Usher: This seems to be the only tale I didn't have prior experience with. I feel as if this made me focus too much on the text, and working to understand the story, rather than on the illustrations and how well they worked together. The main issue I did notice here was that the story itself is already extremely description heavy, so the illustrations sometimes felt unnecessary. However, the extreme caricatures of Usher definitely worked in the story's favor, as it allowed me to much more easily picture and understand how affected he was.

Overall, I felt this was a quite solid "Manga Classic," and I loved what it did for Poe's legendary tales. Not only did the illustrations add (for the most part) to the dark and gloomy descriptions and settings of Poe's tales, they also worked to pace the reader, and make us take time with each line, each image, truly letting the emotion and depth of the tale sink in before moving on to the next page.

It's been a while since I've read a graphic novel, but I'm really glad I picked this one to get into the genre again!

The first thing that drew me in was the illustrations, as I loved both the style and colors chosen for almost all of the scenes. I also absolutely loved how the ghosts were done in this story, and how they followed the whole "sheets as ghosts" idea and took it farther than just an appearance.

The story itself was also cute (yet heartbreaking), and I loved the small twist that the author managed to weave in. I agree with other reviewers that the pacing was a bit off though, as the build up took up most of the book with a fairly quick resolution by the end. Additionally, the plot itself was fairly simple, and I found the ghosts to be the most unique touch the comic had (though I did absolutely love those ghosts).

My favorite of the two characters was definitely Wendell, as I loved the personality we got to see, and the illustrations that accompanied his moments were just adorable. I also really loved how closely the two stories weaved themselves together, beyond just sheet ghosts + laundromat girl become friends. It added a whole other layer to the story, and made it feel more fleshed out.

It was a cute and quick read, and I recommend picking it up if you're in the mood for that!