EYE OF THE LYNX by Thomas Ligotti
Channel: Manifest Dust-in-yer-eye
Date: 2021-06-26

Herewith the final story in Ligotti's early Nyctalops trilogy.

As usual, RECOMMENDED: headphones or earbuds that will boost the lower end of my voice (as well as increase fidelity of the recording). Doesn't sound right without that.

The main picture used here is from the relatively unknown artist/illustrator Gordon Noel Fish, who should not be. You can see a picture of him back when he was in war service, here (last man standing on the right): https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205148971. I think that the pinnacle of his fantasy-oriented work is in the first British edition of The Circus of Dr. Lao (Grey Walls Press, 1948)--just delicious and delirious in a haunted way. This picture here, though, is from among his illustrations for Hugh Walpole's gothic novel Castle of Otranto, the granddaddy of the genre.