Nov 20
Click for full imageRusty’s Art Direction: Lovecraft, huh? In that case, of course we’ll have to slap a clarinetist on the cover. But that’s not very striking, is it? So give him more fingersyeahhe’s a hardcore monster clarinetist. Yeahand knuckleslots of knuckles. Put in more knuckles, just stuff those hands full of knuckles. Make them have more knuckles than fingers! Yeah, yeah, that’s it. And his body and neck, even his lips! MORE KNUCKLES! MORE KNUCKLES! MORE MORE MORE!!!……oh yeeeaaaaaaah…..that there is beauty!
Published 2009
(Average: 1.91 out of 10)
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November 20th, 2012 at 9:39 am
This wonderful peace is done by a late Polish artist Zdzislaw Beksinski. His art has elements of horror you can’t find anywhere else. Nothing cheesy.
November 20th, 2012 at 9:40 am
A lot of knuckles, sure, but when you’re trying for grade 5 clarinet the more knuckles the better!
November 20th, 2012 at 10:47 am
Reminds me a bit of Giger. I like it!
November 20th, 2012 at 12:44 pm
The fonts and banner for the title and author are very uninspired, but the artwork is actually very good and fitting for a Lovecraft anthology, capturing perfectly the Lovecraft quote about being “lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a daemoniac flute held in nameless paws.”
November 20th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
A classic, this one. Obviously the ‘knuckles’ will invite comment, but I agree with #4, the worst thing about this cover is the lettering. Look up ZdzisÅ‚aw BeksiÅ„ski for some truly weird and fantastic art.
November 20th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Thanks for the Beksinski tip people.
The lettering, with all-upper-case and slightly-taller letters in lieu of capitals, looks oddly like ‘In the Night Garden…’ Is this what Makka-Pakka will eventually look like in thousands of years?
November 20th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Inspired by an actual Lovecraft line or not, the clarinet gives it a comical effect that I don’t think was intended. Otherwise it’s fairly creepy.
November 20th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
I probably would’ve found this cover creepy but all I can think of now is “I have a fever and the only cure is more knuckles!”
November 20th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
@Jaouad — The work is ZdzisÅ‚aw BeksiÅ„ski’s….. You were spot on — I was trying for the life of me to remember his name…
I love the cover. I think it’s very creepy, brilliantly conveyed — but yes, the clarinet is rather silly.
November 20th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
An unspeakable jazz solo.
November 20th, 2012 at 5:24 pm
I have more knuckles than fingers….
November 20th, 2012 at 5:24 pm
Great cover but Zeus is not impressed.
November 20th, 2012 at 5:36 pm
The cover is too good for this site!
November 20th, 2012 at 11:08 pm
That must be the illustration for when Kenny G. takes out a second mortgage on his deal with the devil.
November 20th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
You’ve been playing Stranger on the Shore too long, Acker Bilk!
November 21st, 2012 at 3:10 am
I rather like this illustration as well, excessive knucklization((?) not withstanding. At least it isn’t playing a trombone. That would be ludicrous.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:33 am
Could be worse. It could be playing a kazoo.
November 21st, 2012 at 11:58 am
Probably the most failed post on goodshowsir.
November 26th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
The always excellent Coilhouse has an article on Zdzisław Beksiński over here: http://coilhouse.net/2007/12/the-beautiful-nightmares-of-zdzislaw-beksinski/
Also, you might want to correct the tags on this post.
January 10th, 2013 at 1:18 am
Really? you’re bashing Beksinski? He never did comissions nor did he intend his art to illustrate a particular work. Even if it was the case, this image brings to mind the musicians of Lovecraft’s “Demon sultan Azathoth” and seems to fit the imagery very well.
January 20th, 2013 at 10:09 pm
Kenny G’s future punishment in hell. :-p
February 3rd, 2013 at 6:15 am
“No one ever found out what the great cast-iron cooking range had been turned into, because it had broken down a wall and made good its escape before the dishevelled party of wild-eyed mages burst into the room. The vegetable chef was found much later hiding in the soup cauldron, gibbering unhelpful things like ‘The knuckles! The horrible knuckles!'”
That happened in Terry Pratchett’s [The Light Fantastic] when a magic spell zapped through several floors – or rather ceilings – at Unseen University. A range is a stove usually several times the size of a human being, but maybe what we’re looking at is, too. And it looks like something’s burning.
July 8th, 2018 at 4:04 am
Truly creepy while strangely beautiful at the same time. This would make a brilliant Doctor Who creature.