CARKER

CARKER

"It was a perfect mummy. Either the Indian art had shrunk the bodies, or this was that of a ten-year-old boy. There was no flesh. Only sin and bone and taut dry stretches of tendon between. The eyelids were closed; the sockets looked hollow under them. The nose was sunken and almost lost. The scant lips were tightly curled back from the long and very white teen, which stood forth all the more brilliantly against the deep brown skin."

Anthony Boucher, They Bite

This is the first in a series of drawings I did last year for a new series of Stories From the Borderland. Unfortunately, Scott's too busy to write the essays for now. But I love these drawings  and the stories he suggested so much that I couldn't wait any longer to share them. 

Pictures of mummies I took in Ica Palermo, Brno & Dublin.

This one was particularly fun because it wasn't the usual mummy we get in Universal horror films. It's an anti-colonial tale that draws on indigenous practices for it's mummy portrayals. I've been lucky enough to see some of these guys (though much further south) in Peru and on my other travels. 

This story was originally published in Unknown from August 1943, the same issue that featured James H. Schmitz's Greenface! There are two illustrations by Frank Kramer to accompany the story. Pretty cool, especially the one with the severed head biting the main character's hand!

Tomorrow's creature is a new take on a type of creature I've drawn a few times.