October Dreaming

Work by the amazing Joseph Mugnaini.

The Masks Of The Halloween Tree

If you've read Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree, you know the illustrations below very well.  They appear with each new chapter page in his wonderful book.  Joseph Mugnaini's artwork, at this point, is as much a part of The Halloween Tree as Bradbury's own words.

More Joseph Mugnaini Works

So many amazing pieces from Ray Bradbury's personal collection.

More works here.

Joseph Mugnaini Rough Drafts

Wow.  Never saw these before.
If you haven't read Bradbury's The October Country, you must.
In my humble opinion, it's his best short story collection, even surpassing The Halloween Tree.

Image source.

Skeleton

Then he heard it.
Deep down in the subterranean fissures of his body, the minute, unbelievable noises; little smackings and twisting and little dry chippings and grindings and nuzzling sounds like a tiny hungry mouse down in the red-blooded dimness, gnawing ever so earnestly and expertly at what might have been, but was not, a submerged timber ... !

Ray Bradbury

Chasing Halloween

The Dive Spell blog.

Halloween Tree