Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children #18

From Piranha Press comes this unsettling yet strangely beautiful eighteenth volume in Dave Louapre and Dan Sweetman's celebrated mature-readers series. Sweetman's cover art presents a winged cherub figure with a raw, bruised face — part Renaissance putto, part nightmare — tumbling against a dark background, its outstretched arms grasping at a bird in a deeply visceral image that perfectly captures the series' signature blend of the innocent and the grotesque. If you've been following Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, this 1990 entry looks every bit as haunting and thought-provoking as the title promises.