“ The Willows is a remarkable piece of pastoral supernatural fiction. Here are several takeaways from Paul Pope’s three-page “An Artist’s Note:” This edition is accompanied by an introduction by the great horror novelist Ramsey Campbell, and the artwork is colored by Omar Abdullah. Calling this lavishly illustrated would be an understatement. Eight double-page plates plus single page plates, all in color, as well as titles and vignettes in two and three color. Wrap around cover in full color with no text. Lovecraft, who called The Willows “the greatest horror tale ever written in the English language.” Pope brings five Blackwood stories to unsettling visual life, tackling the challenge of how to illustrate an author who had his gaze firmly fixed on the inexpressible, unknowable and uncanny. Blackwood’s work predicts and predates the work of H.P. Paul Pope ( Battling Boy, Batman: Year 100) provides stunning full color plates for short stories and novellas by Algernon Blackwood, one of the original masters of horror and weird fiction. Pin-Up & Adult –You must be 18 or older.
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