Junior Wences

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The cover of "Nine Goblins," a comic fantasy novel by T. Kingfisher. It's subtitled "A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief." The cover depicts a female goblin in the foreground looking determined (or maybe irritated) with a pile of eight goblins in the background, of various appearances, all rolling around in general chaos.
The surface of a rubber stamp with the image of a cartoon giraffe.
The cover of the roleplaying game "Outgunned Superheroes." The cover depicts a redhaired woman in a red, white, blue, and gray armored superhero costume similar to Iron Man's. Her helmet is off, and she looks determined.
The cover of "Kill All Wizards," a comic fantasy novel by Jedediah Berry.
The cover of "Uncanny X-Men by Gail Simone, Vol. 4: Where Monsters Dwell" by Gail Simone, David Marquez, Luciano Vecchio, and others. The cover depicts the X-Men -- Rogue, Gambit, Jubilee, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler -- standing in a dark swamp. The characters are all standing in shadow, with minimal lighting making them all look sinister.
The cover of "On Juneteenth," a collection of essays by Annette Gordon-Reed.
The cover of "A Haunting on the Hill," a horror novel by Elizabeth Hand. The cover depicts an old mansion, and the reflection of the mansion on the bottom three-quarters of the cover has something unidentifiable growing out of it.
The box for the dice game "Last Train to Bremen," subtitled "A Tragedy for a Doomed Quartet," designed by Caro Asercion.
A scene in a green, park-like area. In the foreground is a large tube (in the mouth of a T-rex skull) shooting out a stream of soap-like foam. In the middle are a bunch of kids playing in a large bed of the foam shot out by the cannon.
The cover of "Lucky Day," a horror-comedy novel by Chuck Tingle.
An old-fashioned hot rod, bright yellow in color, maybe from the 1930s, open engine, low, flat roof. I don't know enough about cars to tell you the make or model, but it looks dang cool.
A group of a half-dozen or so kids at a hot dog eating contest. They have plates of hot dogs in front of them, along with bottles and pitchers of water.
A giant inflatable lizard, colored in red, white, blue, and yellow, with large inflatable kites flying in the air above it. In the lower corner is a person looking very small next to the lizard.
A bunch of small American flags on wooden sticks, all dropped in a white vase.
The cover of "Yotsuba&!, Volume 16" by Kiyohiko Azuma. The manga cover depicts Yotsuba, a green-haired little girl with pigtails laughing happily. She's wearing camping clothing and a small canteen and standing on some rocks in a forest.
The cover of "An Illustrated History of UFOs" by Adam Allsuch Boardman. The cover depicts a nighttime scene in a forest with a UFO lifting a deer in a beam of light. Below, a car is stopped on the road.
The cover of "An Army Wife's Cookbook," a cookbook by Alice Kirk Grierson. The cookbook is subtitled "With household hints and home remedies," and Grierson is also noted as "Wife of Col. Benjamin H. Grierson, Tenth Cavalry."
The cover of "Hench," a superhero prose novel by Natalie Zina Walschots.
Three red trumpet vine blossoms, with green leaves in the background.
A bright pink four o'clock flower with green leaves in the background.
The cover of "When We Were Real," a novel by Daryl Gregory. The cover depicts a stylized road, tunnel, and mountain range, with a red sky with fluffy white clouds. (And also a sun and a moon in the same image.) On the ground on either side of the road are a bunch of sheep, which look mostly identical to the clouds.
The cover of Shelby Van Pelt's novel "Remarkably Bright Creatures," depicting a gray-haired woman watching a bright orange octopus.
A yellow sunflower with green leaves against a background of concrete sidewalk and stray branches.
A sheet of postage stamps featuring images of boxer Muhammad Ali. The images on the stamps feature Ali in a boxing stance with a tough expression on his face, each stamp lettered "ALI" in large letters and "The Greatest" in smaller letters. The image on the sheet surrounding the stamps is Ali smiling in a suit and tie; it is labeled "Muhammad Ali / 1942-2016 / Boxer, Activist, and Humanitarian."
A young black and white goat leaning against the leg of a woman wearing a denim skirt.
The cover of "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert," a novel by Bob the Drag Queen.
Two boys sliding down a pair of water slides at a swimming pool. One of the slides is a green tube; the other is yellow and open to the sky. In the background is a swimming pool with a few kids swimming, along with another large tubular water slide.
The cover of "Slayground," a hard-boiled crime novel by Richard Stark.
The cover of "The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale," a short story collection by, naturally, Joe R. Lansdale.
The cover of "A Museum of Early American Tools," a book by Eric Sloane.
A pair of light yellowish-pink roses against a background of green leaves.
The cover of "The Mummy," a graphic novel written and illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks, with colors by Lee Loughridge.
Bright yellow daffodils against a background of green leaves.
The cover of "Parable of the Sower," a novel by Octavia E. Butler.
The cover of "Venus in the Blind Spot," a collection of short horror comics by Junji Ito. The cover depicts an extreme closeup of an eye with an attractive woman staring unsettlingly at the viewer. The book is bound in the traditional Japanese style, with the spine on right.
The cover of "Searoad" by Ursula K. Le Guin. The book is subtitled "Chronicles of Klatsand." The cover depicts a distant figure staring into the sea against a backdrop of forests and mountains.
In red ink on a black background: A cat tearing snakes apart. The text reads: "Neo-Nazis NOT welcome"
Text in a 1980s-style retro wave graphic reading "Go Fuck Yourself."
The cover of "Autonomous," a science fiction novel by Annalee Newitz. The cover depicts a severed robotic arm with a stylized shackle and chain around the wrist.
The contents of a Champions roleplaying game boxed set from 1984. In addition to the box (the cover art includes three generic superheroes flying across a sunlit cityscape), there's a rulebook (same cover art as the box), a campaign book (cover features a villainous operative from the evil organization VIPER), a character sheet, a Hero Games catalog from Spring 1984, and some small six-sided dice.
The cover of "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection," an anthology of short fantasy and horror stories edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. Featured authors on the cover include Ray Bradbury, Charles De Lint, Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, John Kessel, Joyce Carol Oates, Jack Womack, and Jane Yolen.
A large can of Prince Albert tobacco. It's a red can labeled "Prince Albert smoking tobacco" with other labels reading "Crimp cut" and "Long burning" along with a picture of Prince Albert himself. There is also an old wooden pipe sitting on top of the can.
The cover of "The Worm in Every Heart," a collection of short horror stories by Gemma Files.
A close-up of a fabric puppet of a potoo bird. It has brown fur (to represent feathers), a black beak, and big, yellow, bulging eyes.
The cover of "How to Fracture a Fairy Tale," a collection of short stories and poetry by Jane Yolen. The cover includes many elements from traditional fairy tales, including crowns, frogs, chickens, foxes, dragons, castles, a shattered mirror, and more.
A close-up of leaves of green lettuce in a bowl.
An image from 1996's Marvel vs. DC #2, in which Bane (from DC Comics) is preparing to break Captain America's back (from Marvel Comics), unaware that Cap's shield is boomeranging back at him...
The cover of "Grendel," a novel by John Gardner. The cover depicts the monster, looking a little less than monstrous and terrifying, howling at the sky.
The cover of "The Mighty Thor, Vol. 1: Thunder in Her Veins" by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman.
A trio of white, pink, and yellow apple blossoms, with one about to bloom, framed on either side by a pair of green leaves.
A closeup of a wreath made of grapevine -- dried grapevine branches, flowers, wire, a checkered ribbon.
The cover of "The Unkillable Frank Lightning," a Western fantasy novel by Josh Rountree.
The cover of "Through the Hedgerow" by Jonathan Rowe, illustrated by Peter Johnston. It's billed as "A roleplaying game of rustic fantasy."
An antique sewing machine with an old Singer brand name on the side. It's black in color with lots of red and gold decorations on the sides. It also has decorated metal plates in the front and on the side of the machine. It's set into a wooden table.
The cover of "Fantastic Four, Vol. 1: Save Everyone" by Ryan North and Humberto Ramos. The cover of the graphic novel, of course, features Reed Richards, Susan Richards, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm.
The cover of "When Things Get Dark," a short story collection edited by Ellen Datlow with stories inspired by Shirley Jackson. Spotlighted authors on the cover include Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Carmen Maria Machado, and Paul Tremblay.
Bright yellow daffodils, including three of them grouped close together, with plenty of green leaves in the background.
The covers of volumes 1-3 of "The Uncanny X-Men" by Gail Simone, David Marquez, and others.
Some small red flowers from a flowering quince shrub, along with a few small green leaves and a bunch of bare brownish branches.
The cover of the "Trinity" graphic novel by Tom King and Belen Ortega. The cover depicts Lizzie Prince, the future alternate-universe daughter of Wonder Woman with Jon Kent, the future alternate son of Superman, and Damian Wayne, the future alternate son of Batman.