Matt Kish’s page 26 illustration for Moby-Dick: the forest, childhood terrors, and what we imagine in the dark.

Here’s more of our conversation with Matt Kish, this time focusing on his image that evokes Hawthorne and Jewett and the fairytale.

And Moby-Dick: “…and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bedside.”

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