I've recently become re-obsessed with the work of Harry Clarke, after watching the documentary Darkness in Light. While his stained glass work is wonderful (especially his last works, like his notorious window for the League of Nations in Geneva), I'm much more a fan of his book illustrations. A combination of his macabre and grotesque medieval sensibility with the Viennese art nouveau style that was gaining in popularity at the time, his illustrations are both disturbing and beautiful. Here are some of my favorites, most of which are from his illustration of Edgar Allen Poe stories (you'll have to click the images because blogspot is kinda of a bitch with big images, and making them a small size would do them no justice):
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