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Author | Stephen King |
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Illustrator | f-stop Fitzgerald |
Language | English |
Subject | Architecture |
Published | 1988 (Viking Studio Books) |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 128 |
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]
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]