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"WHEN HE SPOKE, THE MINGLING AND INTERWOVEN SOUNDS OF THOSE THREE MOUTHS WAS UNCANNY."

PIC INFO: Resolution at 900x1108 -- Spotlight on an ink drawing of Leeman Vol from Clive Barker's "Days of Magic, Nights of War" (2004), the second book in the "Abarat" young adult fantasy book series. Artwork by "Homoeroticus Bosch," c. June 2017.

"He had been born, for instance, with not one but three mouths, all lined with bright yellow teeth that he had meticulously sharpened to pinprick points. When he spoke, the mingling and interwoven sounds of those three mouths was uncanny. Grown men had been known to block their ears and leave the room sobbing because the sound put them so much in mind of their childhood nightmares. Nor was this second grotesquerie all the vileness that Vol could boast. He had claimed from his childhood that he knew the secret language of insects and that his three mouths allowed him to speak it."

-- Extract from chapter "Darkness and Anticipation," from the 2004 dark fantasy novel "Days of Magic, Nights of War" (book two in the "ABARAT" series)

Source: https://twitter.com/ragingwoodcock/status/870488414428069889.

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 27 days

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"HE HAD BEEN BORN, FOR INSTANCE, WITH NOT ONE, BUT THREE MOUTHS, ALL LINED WITH BRIGHT YELLOW TEETH."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the triple-mouthed Leeman Vol, plus initial concept art, from "Abarat" Book Two, a.k.a., "Days of Magic, Nights of War" (2004), artwork/ sketch art/ painting by Clive Barker.

"Nothing about Vol was pleasant or pretty. He did not like the company of his fellow bipeds much, preferring to enjoy the fellowship of insects. This in itself had gained him a measure of infamy around the islands, not least because he bore on his face more than a few mementos of that intimacy. He had lost his nose to a spider many years before, the creature having injected his proboscis with a toxin so powerful that it had mortified the skin and cartilage in a few agonising minutes, leaving Vol with two slimy holes in the middle of his face. He had fashioned a leather nose for himself, which effectively masked the mutilation but still made him the target of taunts and whispers. Not that the nose was the sole reason that people talked about him. There were other facts about Vol's appearance and personal habits that made him noteworthy.

He had been born, for instance, with not one but three mouths, all lined with bright yellow teeth that he had meticulously sharpened to pinprick points. When he spoke, the mingling and interwoven sounds of those three mouths was uncanny. Grown men had been known to block their ears and leave the room sobbing because the sound put them so much in mind of their childhood nightmares. Nor was this second grotesquerie all the vileness that Vol could boast. He had claimed from his childhood that he knew the secret language of insects and that his three mouths allowed him to speak it."

-- Extract from chapter "Darkness and Anticipation," from the 2004 fantasy novel "Days of Magic, Nights of War" (book two in the "ABARAT" series)

Sources: https://vintageandmodernbooks.com/products/horror-hardback-clive-barker-visions-of-heaven-and-hell-first-edition-printing & www.clivebarker.info/abaratevolution3.html.

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