“In the twilight, two bands of strangers came to the desert mining camp of Perdition. The first, a circus of devil worshippers out of the Dusk Lands, followed not long after by a preacher woman in her one-horse medicine wagon.

In the darkness, Monsieur Laveau’s Carnival slithers like a gaudy leech among Perdition’s miners, offering them their most secret desires.

The defrocked minister, Mercy Goode, seeks an evil older than the pyramids at the circus’s dark heart, but the god of Monsieur Laveau’s Mirror Maze has heard of this woman and is waiting.

Waiting and hungry….”

Splash page for the Mercy is Just My Name illustrated novel.

Created in my usual digital, colored, modified scratchboard style. Any suggestions or critiques are always welcome.

The story, illustration, and layout were created with Clip Studio Paint, Corel Painter, Cinema 4D, Scrivner, Scribophile, and Affinity Publisher.