Misericords and nooses

[ashlyme]

I went home yesterday to my folks. Hoped to get some walking in, but it was too dingycold and mizzly to bother going out again. I found out an old friend of my dad's had died recently; someone I didn't know well but liked: I remember best the smell of pipesmoke and the parping tunes he made through the pipe when he wasn't smoking. My contributors'

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[sovay]

My contributors' copies of This Spectacular Darkness were waiting for. It's a hefty book and a thing of beauty with a creamy yellow dustjacket and a small cover photo with various mugshots of the giants of weird fic in foxed sepia.

Picture? It sounds lovely.

It has such delightful captions as Alexander the Great being carried up to heaven by two griffins tempted by a piece of meat and Ape mimicking a pedlar (broken).

Dude. Those are like Max Ernst prompts.

It might inspire me to do a bit of drawing again.

I hope so!

[ashlyme]

*Picture? It sounds lovely.*

LJ doesn't want me to upload one, but there's a photo of me holding the book up on Facebook. I haven't been able to sleep again, so I've read half of TSD since midnight. Perfect, perfect. There's one essay on Ligotti I'd not read before, and Joel namechecked me in the acknowledgement: that was touching, and brought back a lot of memories. Even the dustjacket bio mentions "his trademark awful puns... and exotic shirts." I was waiting for this book even before I discovered it was coming out.

*Dude. Those are like Max Ernst prompts.*

Aren't they just! And thank you for the hopes of new drawing.

[sovay]

LJ doesn't want me to upload one, but there's a photo of me holding the book up on Facebook.

I'll check it out!

and Joel namechecked me in the acknowledgement: that was touching, and brought back a lot of memories.

I am so glad.

I was waiting for this book even before I discovered it was coming out.

It knew where to find you.

*hugs*