This page collects illustrations, banners, and book cover art scattered around this domain and credits the original source art. Text descriptions are included. You may click on the book covers for larger versions of the covers. Some of the links on this page lead to art sites outside of Love in Dark Settings.
All cover designs are by Dusk Peterson. Uncredited banner designs are by a friend to whom I am greatly indebted.
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Turn-of-the-Century Toughs banner art: The image used in the banner is taken from page 490 of the 1902 Edition of the Sears, Roebuck Catalogue. The pocket knife shown is called the Austrian Hunter. The catalogue notes that the knife was imported from Austria and became popular because of the "peculiar shape of the handle and blade." The catalogue goes on to say, "It has a clip point blade as shown in illustration, stag handle, fancy iron bolster and caps, German silver shield, steel lining, finely finished inside and out." The knife sold for ninety-four cents and was roughly seven inches long.
Turn-of-the-Century Toughs booktrailer cover art: Detail from a photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, entitled, "Newsie. St. Louis, Mo. May 1910." This photograph shows a man in an Edwardian hat, smoking a cigarette "Newsies" were young men who sold newspapers on the streets for a living. Hine was part of a national committee that investigated the effects of poverty and crime on families.
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The Eternal Dungeon banner art: The prone figure on the left side of the banner is taken from The Valley of Shadows (1899), by Evelyn De Morgan. The following is incribed on a rock in the picture: "Dark is the Valley of Shadows; / Empty the power of Kings; / Blind is the favour of Fortune; / Hungry the Caverns of Death; / Dim is the Light from Beyond; / Unanswered the Riddle of Life."
The Eternal Dungeon banner art and Transformation cover art: The image used on the right side of the banner and on the cover of Transformation is taken from The Angel of Death, by Evelyn De Morgan. In the portion of the picture that is used in the banner, Death, an older man with his hood flung back from his face, reaches down to gently touch a young person, who reaches forward to embrace him.
Rebirth cover art: Death Awakening Sleep (1896), by Simeon Solomon. A hooded man looks coldly at a youth.
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Life Prison banner art: The figure on the left side of the banner is a detail from Prison de Fresnes (1900), a bronze plaque by Oscar Roty. The detail shows an older prisoner covering his face as he sits in a cell on a chained chair. The figure on the right side of the banner is a detail from an early 1900s photograph of an "incorrigible" prisoner, dressed in a striped uniform to show his lowest-ranked status. The photo is from the Miller Group at Iowa's Anamosa State Penitentiary History Website.
Life Prison novella cover art: Detail from The Prisoner (1878), by Nikolaj Alexandrowitsch Jaroschenko. A prisoner, with his back to the darkness, stares at a window shining light into his cell.
Mercy's Prisoner and Coded Messages cover art: Detail from "Officers of the Insurgent Army, prisoners in Postigo Prison, Manila, Philippine Islands" (1901), by H. C. White Co. A man stares through cell bars, while another man stands in the darkness behind him. Reproduction courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Hell's Messenger cover art: Detail from Lewis Wickes Hine's "In the Alexandria Glass Factories" (1911). A man in work clothes stares at the camera. Reproduction courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Michael's House banner art: The bronze statue used in the banner is David with the Head of Goliath (1872), by Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié. The statue depicts a young man raising a weapon above his defeated opponent.
Whipster illustrations: By glockgal (2004). Illustration One and Illustration Two. Text description of the illustrations. Artist's Website. Copyright © 2004 glockgal. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of the artist.
Whipster cover art: Detail from Lewis Wickes Hine's "In the Alexandria Glass Factories" (1911). A worker in a tattered white shirt crosses his arms as he stares at the camera. Reproduction courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Prison City banner art: On the left is a detail from a 1920s photograph of a student at Sherborne School, Dorset. On the right is a detail from an early 1960s illustration of a man touching a button on a futuristic computer. Banner design by Dusk Peterson.
Master and Servant cover art: Detail from an illustration by T. M. R. Whitwell for P. G. Wodehouse's Mike: A Public School Story (1909). Reproduction courtesy of Project Gutenberg.
Debt Price illustration: By H. Rose Melenche (2002). Black-and-white and color versions (color version is off-site). Text description of the illustration. Copyright © 2002 H. Rose Melenche. All rights reserved. Thumbnail courtesy of MAS-Zine; reproduced with permission of MAS-Zine and the artist. Black-and-white illustration reproduced with permission of the artist. Artist's Website.
Debt Price cover art: Detail from Eros (Icarus) (c. 1900), by Sidney Harold Meteyard. A youth stares solemnly to the side, a rope trailing down from his hands, which are behind his head.
Leather in Lawnville banner: Details from Male Nudes Wrestling (1890-1915?), by John Singer Sargent. In the drawing, a man pins his opponent in a kneeling position as the opponent places his arm round the first man.
Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers cover art: Detail from Les amants de la rue vieille du temple, lightened. A man holds a leather-jacketed man firmly against him as they kiss on a night-dark street. Copyright © 2005 vitelone (flickr.com/photos/vitelone). The photograph is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0). The image is used in this non-share-alike work with permission of the photographer.
Pleasure cover art: Detail from Punishment of the Paddle (1912), by M. L. Bracker. A prisoner is punished with a paddle as another man looks on.
Twenty Thousand Gold Stars banner and illustration: By Dusk Peterson. The Crossroads design is adapted with permission of the Crossroads Committee and of the original designer, Hooked.
What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets cover art: The cover is a montage of two photographs. The black-and-white photo is a detail from Cowboy Bebop, showing a man with his booted feet resting next to a computer. Copyright © 2006 Striatic (http://flickr.com/photos/striatic). The color photo is a detail from IML Fort Troff, showing a rubberman, with a padlocked slave chain, bound against a St. Andrew's cross. Copyright © 2006 Alex Bettencourt (http://flickr.com/photos/alexinboots). Both photographs are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).
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Loren's Lashes banner art: The art in the banner comes from three different sources. The figure on the left is from And the Sea Gave Up the Dead Which Were In It (1891-1892), by Lord Frederick Leighton. The bound hands in the middle are from Nicolas Regnier's Saint Sebastian (1620). The figure on the right is from F. Holland Day's Saint Sebastian (1906).
First Lesson cover art: Detail from Riordan Handcuffed to a Speaker, an illustration from the photographer's PI novel The Immortal Game (www.immortalgame.com). Copyright © 2006 Mark Coggins. The photograph is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).
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Subtext banner art: On the left is a detail from Youth in White Trousers (c. 1900?), by Henry Scott Tuke. A young man presses himself pensively against a rock. On the right is a detail from Death of Hyacinth (1801), by Jean Broc. The god Apollo holds a dying youth. Tinted thumbnail courtesy of The World History of Male Love. (Warning: Nudity.)
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Gaylaxicon 2007 ad for Love in Dark Settings: Detail from Edward Burne-Jones's illustration for The Romaunt of the Rose in William Morris's The Kelmscott Chaucer (1896). A middle-aged man with a hood flung back from his face kneels to a youth wearing a loincloth. In the poem that the woodcut illustrates, the youth is the God of Love, who has just pierced the older man with an arrow and taken him prisoner.
Text of Gaylaxicon 2007 ad for Love in Dark Settings: "Imprisonment. Slavery. War. Love. Suspenseful historical fantasy by Dusk Peterson. 'A dense, fascinating read.' —The Annex Reviews. Book trailers and book previews: duskpeterson.com".
Rainbow Reviews ad for Love in Dark Settings: Detail, mirrored, from Paul Avril's Egypt (1909).
Text of Rainbow Reviews ad for Love in Dark Settings: "Imprisonment. Slavery. War. Love. Suspenseful historical fantasy by Dusk Peterson. duskpeterson.com".
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