Friday, August 10, 2018

The Lovecraftian Thing a Day (2018) No.222: The Unfortunate Father Sevich


In an act of what many would probably consider an act of vandalism if not downright sacrilege, I tore this illustration by Dave Carson of the hapless Father Sevich from pages of issue 22/23 of Dagon, where Thomas Ligotti’s The Library of Byzantium - a tale recounting the most strange and inscrutable end to which that unfortunate priest ultimately succumbed - made its first appearance.

There is something downright unsettling about this image (one of my favourite Dave Carson pieces), such that I occasionally like to use it as a means for meditating upon the terrible fate which awaits us all.

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