I have always been attracted about an Anglo-Saxon literature of the late 19th century. The mysterious and perturbant atmosphere of the great novels of that period inspire all the illustrations presented. Thinking to “Dr. Jekill and Mr. Hide” by R. L. Stevenson, “Murders in the Rue Morgue” by E. A. Poe (it is set in Paris, but with a gloomy mood), “Frankestein” by M. Shelley and “Sherlock Holmes” by A. C. Doyle and thinking to the verses of Baudelaire and Rimbaud. Starting from the atmosphere described from these authors I have tried to interpret the tones full of darkness and Victorian decadence; the soul is the centre of everything, loneliness, light, shadows, spleen. And then an homage to the craziness and desperation of Vincent Van Gogh, to his magnificent pictorial grandeur.