Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children #23

Three brooding, heavy-set faces loom against a deep red background on Dan Sweetman's painted cover — a striking image that sets a tone of quiet unease. Below them, a lone small creature lies at the bottom of the frame, isolated against a pale, empty expanse, lending the composition an odd, unsettling poetry. Dave Louapre and Dan Sweetman's "Tiny, Slimy, Writhing Thing" is exactly the kind of strange, evocative work that made Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children one of 1991's most distinctive anthology series.