![]() ![]() ![]() Grotesque and repulsive, gargoyles nevertheless hold an undeniable fascination. ![]() Staring into the faces in these photographs, King says, is "like having a nightmare awake." The sculpture, atop an otherwise nondescript New York City building, instilled within King a sense of horror that was "not precisely physical nor precisely mental." It was a sense of horror so peculiar that it prompted him to pen the text for this book of photographs by f-stop Fitzgerald. Thus does Stephen King, the undisputed master of the modern horror tale, recall his first encounter with the nightmarish figure of a gargoyle. I hear him say it again: We don't see them.but they see us. Seeing this obscene thing is a shock what is worse is seeing the people passing to and fro beneath it, intent on either plotting their day's business or planning their evening's pleasure they pass to and fro and do not look up. He takes me to the window, small, dirty, crisscrossed with old chicken wire, and points across the street to something which seems to be a monster being born not of a living creature but of a building. ![]()
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