Good Day, GHOULJAW

After checking in on the marketing and sales report, there’s been a modest purchase-bump for my freshman collection, Ghouljaw and Other Stories, released by Hippocampus Press in 2014, with a humbling Introduction from S.T. Joshi and cover art by Jared Boggess.  (One sales site claims only five copies remaining in stock.)  

And since it’s been nearly eight years since its publication, I’ll supply a memento from the gifted Ben H. Winters, Edgar-Award-Winning author of The Last Policeman:  “These smart, unsettling stories give us, with vivid detail, both the squalidly ordinary and the terrifyingly extraordinary-and make clear how closely the two are linked.”

“And those eyes…” Cover artist, Jared Boggess, provides insight into GHOULJAW renderings

Ghouljaw - lettering, Boggess

Lettering by Jared Boggess

In a recent post on his website, cover artist, Jared Boggess, writes about his strategy for executing the project, and graciously provides some initial, illustrative drafts.

Ghouljaw - rough draft, Boggess

Ghoulish Sketch by Jared Boggess

Here’s an excerpt from his post:

“The centerpiece of this collection of short horrors follows a young man tormented by series of hallucinations and dreams. Clint Smith beautifully depicts a surreal dream experience in which this young man finds himself swallowed by the ocean haunted by an apparition known as the Ghouljaw.”

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Stop by Boggess’s site — there are plenty of impressive pieces of eye candy from his numerous projects:  www.jaredboggess.com