I don't know who decided that creepy-ish flowers on YA covers was going to be a HUGE thing, but I'm ready for it to be over. (Just read BELLADONA by Adalyn Grace - more flowers!)
I am, however, 100% onboard for more lighthouse covers. We don't see enough lighthouses.
I think flowers really WORK for horror because once they're cut, they don't last long, and just evoke, like... sweet-smelling decay??? The newest T. Kingfisher horror novella has cover art with flowers, too—and also mushrooms and a dead rabbit, LOL—which, like... *scream*.
I could do with a whole series of horror/dark fantasy/mysteries set in lighthouses, they're such perfect in-between, liminal spaces AND bonus, lighthouses are such an easy metaphor for death/crossings, etc. (Apologies, omg, I am super exhausted today, and apparently being exhausted turns my Literary Bullshit dial up to 11???)
I don't know who decided that creepy-ish flowers on YA covers was going to be a HUGE thing, but I'm ready for it to be over. (Just read BELLADONA by Adalyn Grace - more flowers!)
I am, however, 100% onboard for more lighthouse covers. We don't see enough lighthouses.
I think flowers really WORK for horror because once they're cut, they don't last long, and just evoke, like... sweet-smelling decay??? The newest T. Kingfisher horror novella has cover art with flowers, too—and also mushrooms and a dead rabbit, LOL—which, like... *scream*.
I could do with a whole series of horror/dark fantasy/mysteries set in lighthouses, they're such perfect in-between, liminal spaces AND bonus, lighthouses are such an easy metaphor for death/crossings, etc. (Apologies, omg, I am super exhausted today, and apparently being exhausted turns my Literary Bullshit dial up to 11???)