“Award-winning Spanish animator Raul Garcia (The Missing Lynx, The Lady and the Reaper) revisits five of Poe’s most famous stories in different styles and moods, effectively capturing the uber-horror for newbies, particularly the young adult audiences the film is aimed at. The Luxembourg-Belgium-Spain-US co-production is a lovingly crafted class act and a fine intro for the graphic novel crowd. The film won the Youth Jury Prize on its bow at the Luxembourg City Film Festival in early March.

“Completed between 2004 and 2014 as animated shorts (of which The Tell-Tale Heart was short-listed for the Oscars in 2005 and The Fall of the House of Usher in 2013), the creepy quintet make a diversified but satisfying 73-minute feature.  They are framed by a conversation held in a graveyard between Lady Death (elegantly voiced by German children’s author Cornelia Funke) and Poe (Stephen Hughes) who appears in the form of a fiery-eyed raven raging against the dying of the light. The two swap macabre stories while she coaxes him to let go of life, and forces him to face his obsession with death and his fear of dying alone and forgotten. It’s a nice way to bring in a bit of biography and psychoanalysis of the writer who inspired so much of contemporary horror lit.” – The Hollywood Reporter

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