37. If Wishes Were Hearses - 1961 Heather Douglas

37. If Wishes Were Hearses - 1961 Heather DouglasArt by Lou Marchetti.

Larry smells a foul odour coming from the tent he and Rita spent the night in and discovers that the smell is coming from Rita's dead body

you most certainly are very familiar with at least one of his paintings

Jon reluctantly reveals that he's been invited to join a "team"

though just a tiny cameo in the last panel

it was with the understanding that the artist was unidentified

Larry's imagination continues to terrorize him more than the reality of what's in the tunnel

moonlit night

lighthearted moment which perfectly prefaces the seriousness to come

though with some time and a few heavy books it can be flattened out

to preliminary sketches

This is the original painting published as the cover to the 1968 paperback edition of the vintage novel Came A Cavalier by Frances Parkinson Keyes

Gorgeous details in the machinery really sets the stage here