For the Halloween Freebie at That Artsy Reader Girl, I thought I’d pay my respects to the Master of the Macabre. I last read Edgar Allan Poe as a teenager, but so many of his stories still haunt my brain to this day with their dark imagery and memorable quotes.
Halloween is just around the corner, so it’s naturally this week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl.
I can safely say that, of all the spooky creatures and monsters, undead skeletons terrified me the most as a child. I have a vivid memory of hovering outside the biology classroom with a couple of other second graders, daring each other to look through the keyhole at the skeleton model. It was obviously fake and didn’t even have a skull, but it still sent us running away in terror. So, here are some book covers featuring skeletons, skulls and bones.
