First Lines: Nightmares in the Sky

Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques is an coffee table art book, with photographs of gargoyles by f-stop Fitzgerald and an introduction by Stephen King. It is a nicely done book, but the introduction wasn’t all that.

Book read

f-stop Fitzgerald and Stephen King — Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques
First line
Although Marc Glimcher, who originally asked me if I would write an essay on gargoyles as a kind of preface to the book of extraordinary photographs which follows, thought that I would be the “ideal person” for such a piece, I had deep doubts.