Shelfology Book Pairing

Or the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

Illustrated Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

Sprung from the shadowed recesses of Edgar Allan Poe'simagination, these nineteen tales of mystery and the macabre testify to thebrilliance of their author's dark artistry. Each story is colourfully illustrated by the classic artworkof Harry Clarke, in whom Poe found one of his most sensitive and sympatheticinterpreters.