Alabaster #3

A dark, windswept figure dominates Greg Ruth's haunting cover for this third installment of Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird — a shadowy young woman with glowing white eyes and hair whipping in an unseen wind, her silhouette scattered with pale specks of light as if touched by something supernatural. Ruth's monochromatic painted cover work gives the whole image a genuinely eerie, atmospheric weight that feels right at home with Caitlín R. Kiernan's Southern Gothic sensibility. If you've been following Dancy Flammarion's dark journey, this 2016 Dark Horse release is exactly the kind of cover that reminds you why this series lingers with you long after you close the book.