Alice’s dinner party (From Through the Looking-Glass) by an unknown artist. 

Alice unlocking the small door in the hall of doors by unknown illustrator for Alice's adventures in Wonderland, published by Graham Evernden Running Press.

Source now defunct sadly! 

Horrors (Early Carroll Poem)

This is one of my favourite early poems by Carroll. 

Not only does it parody gothic literature, here Carroll hones his dream narrative writing craft. 

A modest start, but it does foreshadow Carroll's later use of dreams quite nicely!

Methought I walked a dismal place

  Dim horrors all around;

The air was thick with many a face,

  And black as night the ground.

I saw a monster come with speed,

  Its face of grimmliest green,

On human beings used to feed,

  Most dreadful to be seen.

I could not speak, I could not fly,

  I fell down in that place,

I saw the monster’s horrid eye

  Come leering in my face!

Amidst my scarcely-stifled groans,

  Amidst my moanings deep,

I heard a voice, 

“Wake! Mr. Jones, 

you’re screaming in your sleep!”

WHAT IS THE USE OF A BOOK ASTHETICS: Tideland by Mitch Cullin

I tried understanding the exact circumstances that brought me to Texas instead of Denmark, but nothing presented itself. I knew only that I had been on my own since that first night in the back country, and that I'd fled Los Angeles after my mother turned blue. Then I saw myself swimming through a vast underwater wilderness, going deeper and deeper, like a penny tossed into the hundred year ocean, or Alice falling very slowly into the rabbit hole. 

Photomontage by me for Mitch Cullin's distressing cult novel, Tideland. 

Tried to pick the least disturbing images I could find to fit this book. It is by no means an easy read. 

Photos are culled from these sources (1,2,3,4)