Illustrations

Poe: The Turk

Run!! Its the TURK!!! Actually, the Turk was the nickname for the chess playing automoton created by a clever Bavarian inventor to fool people of the time into thinking they were playing with a real live robot!! However it was just a man in a box… which Poe brilliantly deduced using his amazing powers of observation. This image is based on sketches of the actual machine, and is used in the exhibit to decorate the kiosk which houses the video game I created for the Library, “I Know Poe”.