Will Greatwich

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Fantasy writer from down under. HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING now available: https://books2read.com/houseoftherainking Reviews of vintage SFF: http://paperback-picnic.ghost.io.

The cover of my novel House of the Rain King. It shows a monastery surrounded by floodwaters and birds. Around the cover are little arrows pointing to words that say "Feather Cloaks" "A bloody spearhead" "The pinion-stone" "sacred books" "a skeletal hand" and "a bag of cockle shells"
Promotional graphic showing the book HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING, with a cover featuring a monastery surrounded by flowing water, with birds circling overhead.
Book cover "Rain in the Desert" by Will Greatwich. A silhouette of a sparrow leaps into the air against a background of desert dunes and falling rain. In the foreground, a series of swords are thrust haphazardly into the sand.
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance. Goofy fantasy art of a guy pointing a sword at a... portal? It looks like Van Gogh's Starry Night with tentacles coming off it
Book cover "HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING". A stylised flat colour illustration depicting a medieval monastery surrounded by floodwaters, with birds circling overhead.
2x 80s action movie women in cool outfits ready to fight a bunch of guys with swords
It's a book called Modelland by Tyra Banks. Yes, that Tyra Banks. The art is just a creepy eye with enormous yellow eyeshadow.
Cover of "The Werewolf Principle" by Clifford Simak. Depicts a robot wolf howling before a full moon
Jack Vance - cycle de Tschai - le Wankh - book cover depicting a big pudgy alien pushing its way threateningly through an airlock.
Three paperback novels in Michael Moorcock's "Corum trilogy". They have lovely psychedelic artwork depicting wrathful demonic gods
3 vietnamese novels with great cover art
I am aware that down to the present time, the fish styled Lamatins and Dugongs (Pig-fish and Sow-fish of the Coffins of Nantucket) are included by many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig-fish are a noisy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.
Cover of "The Traitor Baru Cormorant" by Seth Dickinson, depicting a woman's face shattering like a mask.
Rockpools and weathered stones on a beach, encrusted with kelp and other sea flora.
Cover illustration for "The Book of the New Sun" depicting a masked man in a black cloak.
King Kong stomps on a giant octopus. Kong is played by a man in a latex and fur suit, while the octopus is a puppet.
gaudy 70s book cover depicting a half-naked woman between two burning braziers
cover of "Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art" by Michael Camille
Cover of "Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art" by Michael Camille
cover of Ivan Turgenev's "Sketches from a Hunter's Album"
a glossy hardback book containing blue and purple abstract-seeming microscope images of blood
heavily scratched photo of a night (?) scene. A person tied to a telephone pole with duct tape, hanging above the ground, their fingers splayed in a mystical gesture. The section of the image showing the person's head has been scraped away.
detail of the above image depicting a boy in the rollercoaster pointing in terror at his impending doom
Detail from a jigsaw puzzle depicting (in cartoon style) two rollercoaster cars about to crash into each other head on
Cover of "Nifft the Lean" by Michael Shea