Platypus of Truth

Gifts God gives us gifts we do not want. Beatings and persecutions, the difficult relative; we are acquainted with these. It is the good things we are not ready for, or that come in forms we did not want that baffle me the most. It is the open door that comes ten years too late, the friend in a form that did not fit our scruples or agenda, the return for all the wasted years when we finally fit our sorrows; these are the things that I do not understand. Every good and perfect gift is from above, breaking atmosphere with the fire of the Dove.

Here's another try at some fan art for Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House . I didn't want the labyrinth to detract from the central figure, but I'm wondering now if it's too sparse. The central drawing is pen and ink imported into ClipStudio and modified. Interestingly enough, this iconic figure from the Netflix series is only briefly alluded to in the Shirley Jackson novel. It does, however, make frequent appearances on dust jacket covers. That was really the key for the director in the Netflix adaptation: to build a television mini-series around the most iconic images from the book undergirded by a careful study of the relationships between the main characters and Hill House. It's an interesting way to do an adaptation. For my adaptation into 2D media, I chose to rework The Bent Neck Lady  in the simple color pallette and black background of Mignola and Stewart's Hellboy  series. Maybe that's because I can't draw, but the artists who create

Karen Sullivan as she appears in the unpublished novel The King of the Summer Court (picture and photo by the author). Be mindful of these bones, be mindful of these bones...