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# Macabre Mondays: Horror Literature Art
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/macabre-mondays-horror-literature/
- Published: 2023-09-18T19:19:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-03T15:53:56.000Z
- Description: Mine, that is.
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738597973835, #Import 2025-02-03 15:53

Once upon the 1980’s, I turned in a report to my eighth grade English teacher on short story characters. I believe this was my first interaction with [Poe](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780553212280).

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fe11f24ea-ba02-4a5e-9c42-f813029bd9bd_1936x2592-jpeg.jpg)

When I stumbled across this again in adulthood, the face of the old man cracked me up. I love pre-teen me.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f7fda41b0-9811-4f60-bfd2-89fd403ce6b9_1936x2592-jpeg.jpg)

O, the drama. Let’s go in for a good closeup on this Crayola skinny marker masterpiece.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f38c3294b-2987-4cc5-bf05-d0e382ae8145_2592x1936-jpeg.jpg)

The menancing blue eye is real. LOL

And then there’s [this charmer](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780897334419):

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f727ed6ba-61a6-41d1-9e17-7f746d29a519_1936x2592-jpeg.jpg)

The fire is pretty good; the feet are nightmare fuel.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f356f1acf-c2c7-47ae-b300-a901ff91e051_1936x2592-jpeg.jpg)

Another project for the same class was to create a magazine as a book project. Everyone chose [Anne of Green Gables](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780147514004) or something else age-appropriate. This weirdo chose *Amityville: The Final Chapter* by John G. Jones. I created an entire magazine based around the continuing story of the Lutz family. I’ll bet I was the talk of my country middle school’s teachers’ room.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f281ff3ae-4163-4924-9576-4bc8f0574929_1936x2592-jpeg.jpg)

Yes, the enclosed index card was supposed to be its card catalog addition.

I remember the entire class wanted to read it, in this she’s-spooky-I’m-scared-of-what-she-did-this-time way. I’ll have to dig it back out and read it on the podcast.

Move to adulthood, and I got into grabbing vintage illustrations from the original fairy tales, the horrific versions, and adding color and shading to them. Some of them I even typeset into new pages, like this image from [the original Bluebeard from Charles Perrault](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781514652640), first published in 1697.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2ff0bfece6-fc90-4128-b9d6-83e66b040277_511x700-jpeg.jpg)

I like the way I used light to focus on the triangle of gazes and the key.

And here’s my typesetting of that page:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f52893f83-96b8-48df-94a5-38f7f5c21b83_1275x1650-jpeg.jpg)

I hope you have enjoyed this little horror show-and-tell. I’m still laughing at Monkey Paw’s feet and the old man’s squinty, accusatory face. Back to working on the third Boo Without Goo podcast episode and the second episode’s resource list ([Macabre Monday: Boo Without Goo entry](https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/macabre-mondays-boo-without-goo/)).

Check out the other participants’ entries (did I get everyone?):