{"id":18533,"date":"2017-11-24T02:01:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T01:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18533"},"modified":"2022-07-13T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:43:00","slug":"the-thing-on-the-doorstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/11\/24\/the-thing-on-the-doorstep\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thing on the Doorstep"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Workwise, this year has been a major one for interior illustration. So far I’ve completed about 80 illustrations for different titles, and I’m still not finished. The majority of the work has been for a Spanish publisher, Editorial Alma, based in Barcelona. Earlier this year they launched a line of reprints of classic works of fiction, each of which is illustrated. To date I’ve worked on three of the titles, the first of which, Narraciones extraordinarias<\/em> by Edgar Allan Poe, will feature in a later post.<\/p>\n

The second title, La llamada de Cthulhu<\/em> by HP Lovecraft, is a small collection comprising the rather odd pairing of The Call of Cthulhu<\/em> with The Thing on the Doorstep<\/em>, two very different stories that you wouldn’t usually expect to see together. I provided six illustrations, three for Cthulhu<\/em> which are slightly reworked pages from my comic-strip adaptation of the story, and three new ones for The Thing on the Doorstep<\/em>. This is a story I’d never considered illustrating before when so much of its horror is psychological. It does, however, feature two characters who (by Lovecraft’s standards) are well-defined: the ineffectual Edward Pickman Derby and his sinister future wife, Asenath Waite. So that’s what you see here: portraits of the two main characters plus a view of the climactic scene that gives the story its title. Ideally, I would have liked to have done a fourth picture showing Derby’s surprise awakening at a nightmarish ritual but the deadlines on these books have been tight and there simply wasn’t time.<\/p>\n

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For those interested in this title, the only purchase link I have is an Amazon one<\/a>. All the books are hardbacks (without dustjackets) complete with decorated endpapers\u2014I provided a tentacle pattern for this one\u2014and a bookmark ribbon. Deadlines aside, it’s been a very pleasant experience working for Alma. The next two books are the big ones so watch this space.<\/p>\n

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