The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!

Ominous. Foreboding. Reading NICK BANTOCK’s (1949– ) indescribable postcard-scrapbook-collage-novel Griffin and Sabine is like listening to the familiar rhythms of reality give way and break under the discordantly building cacophony in the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life.” Bantock brings two gifts to bear in his 15-year wave of groundbreaking literature: that talent for conjuring the massing Fates, and the ability to weave a narrative through text to visual art and back again in a way most writers, illustrators, and cartoonists could never even conceive, much less pull off.