Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Devil in the Belfry," from Histoires extraordinaires

Argentine-born Surrealist Leonor Fini is best known for her oneiric, macabre dreamscapes, populated by magical hybrid creatures. Refusing to confine herself to a single medium, Fini created drawings, paintings, costumes, furniture, poems, sculpture and illustrations for almost fifty books. Among these were illustrations for The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, translated by Baudelaire-- a fitting match for Fini's eerie, otherworldly imagery. The volume included the short story "Devil in the Belfry," in which a demon terrorizes the punctilious inhabitants of a Dutch town. Fini's drawing depicts the story's final scene: the devil sits triumphantly atop the belfry-man he has just struck down with his fiddle, amidst a cloud of smoke and flames.