John Kenn Mortensen's Nightmare Factory

By John Kenn Mortensen

Gruesome, spindly figures gather outside a house, then spirit away a dreaming youth, bed and all. The stage is set for 32 skin-crawling poems imagining various children's nightmares, all with sequential illustrations by Danish horror master Mortensen.

His eerie visions fade to black at the edges, like a dreamer unable to shift their focus, and inspire delicious terror all by themselves. Similarly, the short poems each evoke a distinct sense of dread for the sleeping imagination to expand upon; together, the words and pictures conjure a nightmarish world tinged with pitch black humor. The sequences splay across double-page spreads, evoking Edward Gorey gone grand scale, and grand guignol.

For those of a nervous disposition, read in bright sunlight. For those in search of a nervous disposition, take two before bed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683969235
• ISBN13: 9781683969235
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.4" x 7.4"