FROM THE BOOK DESCRIPTION:

“He takes me to the window, small, dirty, crisscrossed with old chicken wire, and points across the street to something which seems to be a monster being born not of a living creature but of a building. Seeing this obscene thing is a shock; what is worse is seeing the people passing to and fro beneath it, intent on either plotting their day’s business or planning their evening’s pleasure; they pass to and fro and do not look up.

None of them look up.

I hear him say it again: We don’t see them...but they see us.

Thus does Stephen King, the undisputed master of the modern horror tale, recall his first encounter with the nightmarish figure of a gargoyle. The sculpture, atop an otherwise nondescript New York City building, instilled within King a sense of horror that was “not precisely physical nor precisely mental.” It was a sense of horror so peculiar that it prompted him to pen the text for this book of photographs by f-stop Fitzgerald. Staring into the faces in these photographs, King says, is “like having a nightmare awake.”

Grotesque and repulsive, gargoyles nevertheless hold an undeniable fascination. Fitzgerald, a renowned avant-garde photographer, has captured the macabre, medieval essence of these fantastic creatures in 100 duotone and 24 full-color photgraphs. Gaxe into the faces of these monstrosities; once you’ve stopped cringing and are assured they aren’t going to fly off the page, you might be grantied an understanding of why these imaginary beings have figured in countless nightmares down through the ages.”

11 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches--(Unpaginated) approx 104 pages

CONDITION:

This hardcover book and its dustjacket are in very good condition. The book’s black cloth cover is very clean and show almost no wear. It is a bit cocked--a slight slant. There is a tiny red mark on the bottom page edges near the spine which I assume to be a remainder mark. There is a gift inscription on a preliminary page. The interior is otherwise very good with no other marks, tears, odor, etc. Binding and hinges are very good. The dustjacket is rubbed along the edges and shows some wear at the corners, but is without tears or creases.

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