BarryHutchison

Happy Halloween to you, dear reader, and thanks for stopping by the blog. I’m painfully aware that I should have updated long before now, but life has been extremely busy over the past few weeks and this is one of the few chances I’ve had to blog.

I wish I’d had time to write a suitable scary Halloween story to post here, but I didn’t. Sorry. Why not console yourself by reading over this 366 word short story which was deemed ‘too scary’ for Scholastic’s WOW!366 anthology book? I had to write another story – Monkey Magic – to go into the anthology, but if you want to read that you’ll have to go out and buy the book.

Anyway, I realised there’s something even more frightening I can do today – I can post pictures of my face!

Beltz & Gelberg, publishers of the German edition of Invisible Fiends, have decided they want to stick my face on the back cover of the books. A photograph of my face, I mean, not my actual face.

I was supposed to get some nice shots done at a graveyard by a photographer friend of mine, but the weather is too wild to do them, so t’other night I quickly took a couple myself, holding the camera at arm’s length and turning it to point at me. I took about 30 shots. 26 or so of them make me look like some kind of malformed, Quasimodo-type creature, but in a small handful I could almost be mistaken for human.

The question is, which do I send? Take a look at the pictures below and let me know which you think would work best on the back cover of a children’s horror series.

Photograph 1.

I'm going to rip your lungs out through your eyes

Photograph 2.

Whereas I won't