Evangeline Gallagher Wins the 2022 Folio Book Illustration Award
The Masque of the Red Death--A single scene
The 2022 Folio Book Illustration Award has been won by Evangeline Gallagher.
The Folio Society, publisher of award-winning, beautifully produced illustrated books, has revealed Evangeline Gallagher as the winner of The Folio Book Illustration Award 2022. Launched this year to mark The Folio Society’s 75th anniversary, the competition showcases illustration talent from around the world.
Over 680 illustrators from 56 countries entered the inaugural competition, which asked entrants to illustrate a single scene of their choice from Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Masque of the Red Death.
You can see other winners at the Folio Society website.1
Love the Folio Society. Keep asking for some of them for birthdays and Christmas but no one will buy me a $150 version of a book!
Evangeline Gallagher's illustration stands on its own. And the video. Damn! Most of us have read some Poe. The "Cask of Amontiallado (sp?)" is my personal Poe center of gravity. A few us might have read The Masque of the Red Death. I have not. But it doesn't matter. The illustration floods the brain and lights up all the sympathetic nerve endings joined somewhere to that eerie place Poe prodded (interrogated - heh) in so much of his work. Freud's "uncanny." Here is a link to the story itself:
https://poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death/