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Jack Gaughan's 1965 cover to The Maker of Universes by Philip Jose Farmer
“Barbarian and Castle” Frank Frazetta 1970
Mike Mignola, 'Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser', ''Marvel Age'', #93, October 1990
Bruce Timm
Owe Zerge (Swedish, 1894–1983) - Olle in the Hat
Frau Minne, the medieval goddess of love, rising like a tree above the two lovers as the notes of the opera drift around them.
Illustration by Franz Stassen, 1899 for Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde.
Solar panels envisioned almost a hundred years ago. Le petit inventeur. January 1929. Children's magazine, cover detail.
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'Born to Exile' by Phyllis Eisenstein, 1978 (Stephen Fabian)
This is at least the second version of The Stygian Library (2024); there was definitely a hardcover prior to this (I know because I owned it) and it is within the realm of possibility that a softcover, zine or PDF version was released prior to that (possibly all three). My rooting around has proven inconclusive. This edition was put together by Soul Muppet to match the clothbound revision of The Gardens of Ynn (see tomorrow’s post!) and it’s a notable improvement over the previous hardcover. In addition to being a lovely, properly bookish object, some layout issues have been resolved and the book feels much more usable (though this might be a trick of my memory).
It very much lives up to its subtitle: “a dungeon for bibliophiles.” It’s another place, accessed through a mundane library, archive or bookshop of requisite size, where someone has died. If the proper door can be found, players can enter into what is essentially an endless indoor space lined with books where, periodically, locations of interest can be found.
The Library is created on the fly, using tables to determine the next point of interest, as well as random events and encounters. The deeper the players go, the stranger the library becomes. Color coded librarians carry out their duties. Strange creatures lurk. Wondrous books wait to be found. I hesitate to say more. The material drifts effortless between darkness and whimsy and there is just so much to discover that I’m frankly a bit in awe of Emmy Allen’s creativity.
The only thing I can think of that seems to capture a similar tone is Electric Bastionland. Which is interesting, because Alec Sorensen illustrated both. I find I like his work here a smidge more, if only because I understand libraries more than I understand bastionlands, so the illustrations seem more grounded to me. I love his mind flayers, er, neurovores!
Ugo Valeri - Portrait of Eleonora Duse (1901)
“Barbarian and Castle” Frank Frazetta 1970
"Cat and Moth" by Neva Hosking
Vilhelm Hammershøi Seated Figure, Seen from Behind, 1884
"The Challenge" by Agnes Miller Parker (1934)
Rose O'Neill - Signs (1904)
Ethel: "He acts this way. He gazes at me tenderly, is buoyant when I am near him, pines when I neglect him. Now, what does that signify?" Her mother: "That he's a mighty good actor, Ethel." (source)
William Dobell - Young man sleeping (ca. 1936)
Anton Seder. Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe /The Plant in Art and Industry. vol.2. ca. 1887-89.
A garden snail, a hare, a lizard, a moth, and a small songbird each find their place among the voluptuous, almost fantastical foliage of some kohlrabis. Have the leaves of a root vegetable ever been this lush?
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