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The best stories involve passion, whether celebrated ('King Henry' and 'Savoy') or cautioned against ('The Demon Lover' and 'The Three Lovers'), though even the least effective stories are still beautiful.

His exquisitely detailed art delightfully recalls the Pre-Raphaelites here, Aubrey Beardsley there and elsewhere Winsor McCay or Gustave Doré. Vess approaches them with an appropriately elegant style. Vess and his collaborators put a little meat on the ballads' often bare-bones stories, adding fantastic elements not in the originals ('Barbara Allen'), giving them modern settings ('Twa Corbies'), sexing them up ('Savoy') and otherwise putting their own mark on them. Since then, they've received attention from folklorists, folksingers and, now, cartoonist Vess ( Stardust

Ballads were little known to the literate world until the 18th century, when scholars began writing them down.

The Book of Ballads by Charles Vess