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Interior Illustrations – To Green Angel Tower

Donato Giancola

These past few years I have had the honor to interpret a classic fantasy trilogy from the 1990's, Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series for Grim Oak Press. This trilogy culminates in the final massive tome To Green Angel Tower, and is so large it has historically been published as two volumes to due issues around binding that many pages in one book. Luckily for me as an illustrator tackling this project, it meant…

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Painting Sleepy Hollow

Gregory Manchess

October 29, 2025 - Of all the books and stories I’ve loved, one stands out as a near perfect Halloween tale for me. It’s old, yet rich with descriptions and characters, moods and smells, colors and sounds, myths and hauntings. All the tastes of the season that Autumn-thinkers appreciate. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. It’s a book I’ve wanted to illustrate for so very many years. In childhood, I first found the story in a book of Shirley Temple’s Book of Fairytales my parents gave me. I didn’t read the short story because the illustrations by Arthur Rackham scared the snot out of me. I had nightmares just looking at those creepy, goblin-filled trees and weirdly distorted fairies. (It didn’t take much to give a kid nightmares if he grew up in a slightly haunted house as I did.)…

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