Erik Kriek

Drawing on classic murder ballads - songs, some of them centuries old, which narrate the tales of violence and skulduggery, and have been covered by artists including Jonny Cash, Nick Cave, Steve Earle and Gillian Welch - In the Pines delves deeps into the dark backwoods of Americana to unearth five classic tales of love, crime, betrayal and death. Eerie, bloody, wistful and strange, In the Pines will lead you down where the wild roses grow - to the very heart of the forest, where the ghosts wander, their long-buried secrets unfurling in song.

5 Murder Ballads

In the Pines

Joseph Moncure March

Written in 1928, The Set-Up is a long narrative poem about the US boxing underworld – a hard-boiled tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. When the work was first published it made The Times bestseller list, and in 1949 it was turned into an award-winning film featuring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter.This reprinting of the original, unchanged 1928 poem features dynamic, specially commissioned artwork by Eric Kriek that vividly conveys the story of Pansy, an up-and-coming black prize fighter who takes on all comers. When he was in the ring, “It was over before you knew it. He'd carve you up like a leg of mutton. And drop you flat with a sock on the button.” Pansy’s complicated love life leads to a spell in prison and his career subsequently takes a nosedive; but he continues to box until the fateful night his fight managers and opponent triple-cross him and he meets a grisly end at the hands of a vengeful gang.

The Lost Classic by the Author of 'The Wild Party'.

The Set-Up

H.P. Lovecraft

De duistere verhalen van H.P. Lovecraft zijn sinds de voortijdige dood van de auteur in 1937 van grote invloed geweest op de populaire cultuur. Erik Kriek is sinds zijn tienerjaren gefascineerd door het macabere in het algemeen en de verhalen van Lovecraft in het bijzonder. In deze bundel korte verhalen brengt Kriek de fascinerende wereld van Lovecraft en zijn eigen uitmuntende zwart-witte tekenwerk op unieke wijze samen; het resultaat is dit bijzondere werk van hoge grafische kwaliteit, dat de lezer op onvergelijkbare wijze met Lovecraft laat (her)kennismaken.

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Howard P. Lovecraft

Erik Kriek's graphic adaptations of five short stories by H. P. Lovecraft

Vom Jenseits und andere Erzählungen

Join Mika, a cute little bear on secret quest to avoid hibernation so that she can see the beauty of the Northern Lights for herself! Mika is a little bear who loves to run and play all over the forest, but she soon learns that winter is on its way, and she is supposed to spend these long, cold months hibernating with her mother and father. When the Old Owl tells Mika about the Northern Lights that appear every winter, she can't stand the thought of missing something so beautiful, and so she sets out on a secret, snowy adventure to find them!

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