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John Kenn Mortensen's Nightmare Factory

ISBN-13: 9781683969235

Author(s): John Kenn Mortensen

Subjects: FX, XA

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Publisher Imprint: Fantagraphics

Publication Date: 01-10-2024

Format: Hardback

Availability: In stock

£29.99
John Kenn Mortensen's Nightmare Factory

About the book

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.