Nightmares in the Sky

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Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques
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First edition cover
Author Stephen King
Illustrator f-stop Fitzgerald
LanguageEnglish
Subject Architecture
Published1988 (Viking Studio Books)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages128
ISBN 978-0-670-82307-9
Preceded by Danse Macabre (book)  
Followed by On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft  

Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques is a coffee table book about architectural gargoyles and grotesques, photographed by f-stop Fitzgerald (Richard Minissali) with accompanying text by Stephen King, and published in 1988. An excerpt was published in the September 1988 issue of Penthouse . Some of the images in the book were used as textures in the video games Doom and Doom II , [1] as well as Witchaven , ShadowCaster , and The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall . [2]

Reception

Kirkus Reviews found some King's text took a "teen stance" occasionally, but that it "evokes the weight and brooding presence" of gargoyles, coming to a possibility to their purpose quoting King, "venting the waste material of our own hidden fears". However, it was the stark photographs from f-stop Fitzgerald that truly stood out to the reviewer. [3]

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