Spooky & The Strange Tales: Monster Inn

(Hardback)

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Once upon a time, in the heart of the kingdom of Fairy Tales, a king and a queen had the strangest of children... Spooky! Turn the traditional fairy tale tropes topsy-turvy in this lavishly illustrated storybook as Spooky explores her dark, enchanted world. And when uncles the Three Little Pigs offer a trip to their London hotel, Spooky trades one improbable setting for another! Monster Inn shines a charming, childish light on contemporary goth culture for a rich and unique story that's out of this world.

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Carine-M and lian Black'Mor are concept and graphic designers, authors and illustrators. This duet of artists works in total harmony and reveals an abouding creative universe in the field of Fantasy and Weird. Alternately conductor and instrumentalist, they are at the service of their creations. Their hybrid work blends traditional practice with the digital tool. The graphic identity of each combines itself, while it remains visible and accessible. Each artist is the author of his own univers- "The Black'Mor Chronicles" for lian, where he recounts the spooky peregrinations of his avatar of paper, "L'epouvantable encyclopedie des fant mes" that opens for Carine-M a window on her poetic and surreal imagination. This work is performed at 4 hands. Their inspirations range from Victorian period and black Romanticism while tapping into our contemporary time.