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A B C D E
1 LGBTQIA+ Lead Supplementary, My Dear Watson A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words Award Winner Against the Odds
2 Revisiting an Old Friend Author from a Different Continent Weapon on the Cover Great Big Title Independent Author
3 Punctuated! We’re Putting the Band (Back) Together [FREE SPACE - Off Your TBR Pile] What’s in a Name? Late to the Party
4 Minority Author Rooted & Rising Free Read The Ink Is Still Fresh Putting the Pieces Together
5 Get Off My Lawn The Late, Great… Sufficiently Advanced Kintsugi Double Up, Double Down

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  • JaymesRS@lemmy.worldOPM
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    25 days ago

    1C: A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words: Illustrations, photographs, or graphic elements noticeably enhance the work. HARD MODE: Heavily visual, such as a graphic novel, manga, photo essay, picture book, or coffee table book.

    • xorollo@leminal.space
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      12 days ago

      https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199020569-grim-portraits

      What do you see when you look at a painting? The image, the brush strokes, the stippled canvas beneath? What if you looked beyond it? And what do you know about the person who created that picture that’s hanging on your wall? They say art requires a certain acceptable degree of madness. What secrets then lie beyond the pigment in the darkness between depiction and delusion?

      Herein you’ll find stories about self-destructive lovers on a quest to find themselves while getting lost in each other (“Sometimes They See Me”), meet a man who wakes to find himself bound to a chair in a gallery of nightmarish paintings (“The Binding”), discover how one horrific act converts a child’s grief into artistic talent in “The Portrait”, witness the unveiling of an art collector’s most precious and macabre find in “The Acquisition”, visit a comic book store with a pair of thieves intent on robbing a man they don’t know is expecting them (“The Barbed Lady Wants for Nothing”), and read a roadie’s account of a band’s final days after they discover “The Amp.”

      Inspired by Rod Serling’s NIGHT GALLERY, GRIM PORTRAITS features six stories of art, madness, and horror by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke.

      Browse at your peril.

      Might fit since its ABOUT pictures? I enjoyed it. It was a librarian recommendation during Halloween one year.