On sale date: October 1, 2024
For horror fans of all ages, a spine-tinglingly creepy and darkly comedic picture book. Fantagraphics' third release in English from Danish cult illustrator John Kenn Mortensen.
Gruesome, spindly figures gather outside a house, then spirit away a dreaming youth, bed and all. The stage is set for 32 skin-crawling poems imagining various children's nightmares, all with sequential illustrations by Danish horror master Mortensen.
His eerie visions fade to black at the edges, like a dreamer unable to shift their focus, and inspire delicious terror all by themselves. Similarly, the short poems each evoke a distinct sense of dread for the sleeping imagination to expand upon; together, the words and pictures conjure a nightmarish world tinged with pitch black humor. The sequences splay across double-page spreads, evoking Edward Gorey gone grand scale, and grand guignol.
For those of a nervous disposition, read in bright sunlight. For those in search of a nervous disposition, take two before bed.
Specs
- Pages
- 100
- Format
- Hardback
- Color
- Black-and-white.
- Dimensions
- 10.6" × 7.6"
- ISBN-13
- 9781683969235