"Nevermore."

How cool is this?

"A graphic anthology of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories." Completely cool. And also completely perfect for using in a classroom--when I saw this sucker in the stacks of the local Barnes & Noble, you'd better believe I snatched it right up. There are graphic adaptations of The Raven, Tell-tale Heart, Fall of the House of Usher--titles on any high school English teacher's list--each created by a different artist, and each giving a totally different take on Poe.

It lent itself really nicely to a media-literacy warm-up today, for my education methods class, and could have opened up a unit in a regular class very easily. We were starting to fall into some great conversations, but I did have to give the room back to our profs eventually. Oh well. Some freshman class is (hopefully) going to eat this up.