Oct 31
Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: Who can forget the classic spooky Italian Halloween story about the tiny peasant couple in the rotten apple?
Published 1984
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Good Show Sir Comments: Who can forget the classic spooky Italian Halloween story about the tiny peasant couple in the rotten apple?
Published 1984
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October 31st, 2019 at 9:28 am
Apple? Why does his headgear look like an exploding pineapple? Or is it Frankenstein’s monster jammed headfirst into a rubbish bin?
I refuse to even think about the roots coming out of the little peoples’ feet.
October 31st, 2019 at 9:32 am
Michael Myers by Salvador Dali.
October 31st, 2019 at 9:47 am
The tech has never been the same since Steve Jobs passed away.
October 31st, 2019 at 10:30 am
I’ve heard of “Rods from God” but “Logs from God”? Also I’m guessing this is the only occasion Edith Wharton has been anthologised with Isaac Asimov.
October 31st, 2019 at 12:59 pm
Editori Riuniti, on ice.
*edit: I feel like some may need context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riunite
October 31st, 2019 at 1:16 pm
Apparently the ridiculous hat will protect him from the firewood raining down on him.
Italian Mischief Night is bizarre.
October 31st, 2019 at 2:38 pm
The artist is Milic Stankovich, Serbia’s own Hieronymus Bosch/Roger Dean, and the crop omits the (possibly still alive but asleep) baby on the Doge’s chest. https://buki81.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/the-muzej-8-milic-od-macve/#jp-carousel-4411
An English-language version exists, with a more generic cover https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/583670.13_Horrors_of_Halloween
October 31st, 2019 at 3:44 pm
@Tat – Ah yes, Milic Stankovich. The Slobodan of Leonardos.
October 31st, 2019 at 3:45 pm
Right, so I suppose they assume that Halloween is celebrated with people emerging from apples (is that a Garden of Eden reference?), flying wine corks and men wearing decorated pots on their heads.
In short, maybe Serbian surrealism wasn’t the best choice (nod to @Tat Wood).
October 31st, 2019 at 4:34 pm
Alternate title: Vision of a Pothead.
October 31st, 2019 at 5:05 pm
@Tor – Speaking of potheads, I guess this is Giovanni Appleseed.
October 31st, 2019 at 5:08 pm
Ah, how I miss the quaint customs of the Old Country, like the “Raining of the Cheese Logs” the night before Hallowe’en.
October 31st, 2019 at 5:13 pm
He seems to cradling a tiny, though nonetheless detestable, Bokrug look-alike to his chest.
October 31st, 2019 at 5:22 pm
Halloween Night, when surrealist art walks the Earth. Beware of the spider-legged elephants.
@B. Chiclitz: detestable? More like adorable! Just look at those bulgy little eyes and head feelers.
October 31st, 2019 at 7:07 pm
Winter landscape with Yule logs by Pieter Bruegel the elder.
The Age of Robot Innocence by Edith Whasimov.
October 31st, 2019 at 8:43 pm
@Tat Wood, having viewed the rest of Milic Stankovich’s work featured in your link, I feel like he is probably not the sort of illustrator an author is going to want in order to sell a lot of books.
Unless the story contains a significant amount of levitating lumber, in which case Milic Stankovich is very definitely the man you want for the job.
November 1st, 2019 at 3:36 am
@BAM—remember, on Sarnath detestable is adorable!
November 1st, 2019 at 6:17 am
This is scarier than anything I’ve seen in the run-up to Halloween, and scarier than at least one of Stephen King’s horror novels.
So the tiny couple bursts out of the apple, only to be menaced by flying firewood, and then falls onto a hat worn by a giant made up of the random stuff on the artist’s desk.
Once again, we see that the Italian covers don’t care about the topic — surrealistic stuff is good enough for that sci-fi stuff.
And Europeans don’t get Halloween.
Was young Milic forced to continually chop wood and bring it in by hand, so that ever after, he dreamed it would levitate itself to where it was needed? And decided to paint that repeatedly?
@JuanPaul: I understood that reference! Without the hint.
@Ray P: heh at your last line.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:20 pm
Ah, the Tryingtoohardist school of Surrealism.
November 4th, 2019 at 1:36 am
@A.R. Yngve: “And now we add a happy little skull. A skull with a secret vagina. Or maybe it’s a skull made of two naked women – change it up!”