#peter szmer

[bizarrobrain]

Baba Yaga by Peter Szmer

[wilburwhateley]

De Vermis Mysteriis by Peter Szmer from the artist: “De Vermis Mysteriis – work of  Ludwig Prinn, an alchemist, necromancer, reputed mage who boasted of having attained a miraculous age before being burned at the stake in Brussels during the height of the witch trials...Bloch describes the book as containing spells and enchantments, particularly those that can summon strange entities. One such spell, included in a chapter dealing with familiars, summons the titular shambler from the stars.”

[wilburwhateley]

The Crevasse by Peter Szmer *** "A gust of wind scattered fine crystals of snow against the window, and he found himself wondering what the night would be like in this cold country. He imagined the sky dissolving to reveal the hard vault of stars, the galaxy turning above him like a cog in a vast, unknowable engine. And behind it all, the emptiness into which men hurled their prayers. It occurred to him that he could leave now, walk out into the long twilight and keep going until the earth opened beneath him and he found himself descending strange stairs, while the world around him broke silently into snow, and into night." ~ story art for The Crevasse by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud. You can read it here.