Many of the short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe in the first half of the 19th century have long become classics of modern literature. They have been adapted dozens of times across various media. Richard Corben, one of the biggest stars of the comic industry since the 1970s, has also occasionally taken on Poe's work. However, never as extensively and consistently as in this new volume. "Ghosts of the Dead" contains fourteen of Poe's best tales (including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "Morella," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "Buried Alive"), which Corben adapted between 2012 and 2014; each of them is a first publication in German. Over more than 200 pages, Corben demonstrates why Poe remains one of the greats of horror and crime literature to this day, imbuing each story with his own distinctive style.