John Kenn Mortensen's Nightmare Factory Hardcover by John Kenn Mortensen

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2024-10-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 100 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781683969235
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

For horror fans of all ages, a spine-tinglingly creepy and darkly comedic picture book. Fantagraphics’ third release in English from Danish cult illustrator 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.

About the Author

John Kenn Mortensen is an illustrator, author, and film director. In 2011, he debuted a book of illustrations, Sticky Monsters, which has become an international bestseller. His other works include The Nightmare Factory, The Wrestler, A Christmas Bestiary, and two illustrated adaptations of classic Brothers Grimm tales. He lives in Copenhagen with his wife and twins.