Mike Odom

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Sr Instructor, English, U of Illinois Narrative junkie and lover of horror in all its artistic forms Member of the church of baseball He/him

Cover of the novel The Only Good Indians. The top of an elk head peers at the viewer from the bottom as the antlers extend up and dominate the rest of the image. The background is pitch black.
Cover of the novel. Depicts a blurred high rise in black and white. The top mimics an elevator inspection document.
Cover of novel. Dim headshot of main character with smaller picture of main character as a child centered at an angle in front of the background face.
Cover of novel. Close-up of a painting of flowers on a greenish-beige background.
Cover for Passing. Woman dressed in 1920’s dress, black with red buttons and thick red open collar. Also a cloche hat.
Cover of the novel Jasmine. Indian woman gazing toward viewer with city skyline in the background.
Split cover image—White Noise. Top image depicts traffic jam bordered by a surfeit of roadside signs. Bottom image depicts family of 6 in a car.
Cover of Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Close up of a sunset.
Cover of Camus’s The Fall. Mustachioed man staring into camera with prismatic coloration extending from one eye. Rest of image is in black and white.
Cover of My Bondage and My Freedom. Image of Douglass on blue background.
Cover of The Professor’s House by Willa Cather. Open window with a dress form and desk in front of it. Window looks out onto a wooded landscape.
Cover to William Faulkner’s novel Absalom, Absalom! Front of antebellum mansion with several columns. A tree is in the foreground.
Cover to Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. Man walking into a cemetery carrying a body with a crimson sundown on the background. Spectral cat superimposed underground.
Cover of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man with silhouette of face, eyes illuminated.