For this ABH Conversation, Jamie Lou Thome talked with Brandon Graham about writing, making art, raising children, and life in general.
Read moreABH Tutorials: Marbling Paper with Sarah Noreen
In this ABH Tutorial, Sarah Noreen demonstrates how to marble paper.
Read morePlease Support Artists Book House this Giving Tuesday!
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Read moreSpooky Rhymes and Creepy Content by Todd Summar
Words, like incantations, can serve as the backbone of any Halloween spectacle. Stories complement images to conjure a delightfully spooky mood.
Read moreEthereal Realm by Mary Sweeney & Tracy Whiteside
'Ethereal Realm' is a vision, as seen by Mary Sweeney (as Horror Floral) and photographed by Tracy Whiteside.
Read moreAnimal Party and The spirits come out at night... by Linda Scholly
Spirits peer out the bay windows of the breakfast room trying to see what’s going on in the world outside. Black vines grow around the windows as black birds and mice dance around the room.
Read moreSomething Strange is Afoot at the Harley Clarke!
Perhaps you have driven down Sheridan Road passed the Harley Clarke Mansion and seen its windows alight with scenes of not-so-scary Halloween horrors.
Read moreConversations: Karen Bonner with Eileen Madden
Karen Bonner’s debut novel, Witching Moon, is magical tale of healers and mysterious immortals living just the other side of our awareness.
Read moreA House, Haunted — Windows by Kenneth Gerleve
One Halloween he picked up a book / And read in the library’s nook / The story, bewitching and clever, / Cursed him to read there forever
Read moreThe Aviary by Margot McMahon
Under the full moon, in the dark of night / Beware the bedeviled conservatory / If you witness the spectral birds take flight / You’ll be trapped in their haunted aviary
Read moreSkeleton Jangle by Erin Cramer
One Halloween night in 1927, they gathered after dark / All the fellas and dames met for a swanky shindig at the Harley Clarke / Every Halloween, they return to cut a rug underneath the full moon / Joined in their revelry by all their furry friends, the resident raccoons
Read moreThe Raven by Hannah Batsel
Once upon a midnight dreary, / A raven broke into the house / At first we were a little leery / He sat there quiet as a mouse
Read moreSkellies by Hannah Batsel
The Skeleton Sisters give many a fright / With their macabre merrymaking / They save their spooky tricks for Halloween night / And leave all the mortals shaking
Read moreA House Haunted — Windows by Hannah Batsel
Artist @hbatsel brings the party to the Harley Clarke Mansion in Evanston. Her carefree ghouls and mischievous creatures will haunt the windows of the house — and our website — all month long.
Read moreThe Haunting of the Harley Clarke Mansion
You may be wondering why we’ve called our annual Halloween spectacle A House, Haunted. Is the Harley Clarke Mansion in Evanston actually haunted?
Read moreGhost Bride by Alison Aldrich
A House, Haunted Returns!
We ghouls at Artists Book House welcome you to the haunted halls of the Harley Clarke Mansion — virtually, that is.
Read moreConversations: Brian Wilson with Jarrett Dapier
I have worked as a Children’s Librarian at the Evanston Public Library now for nearly 20 years. I find many aspects of my job rewarding, and one of the things I most enjoy is discovering great new picture books. I also love discussing picture books with patrons and co-workers.
Read moreConversations: Jamie Lou Thome with Kerry Littel
As a person who interacts with books in multiple ways, I’m constantly interested in the reasons why a person chooses to surround themselves with books, in whatever ways they do so. I’m fascinated by the variations of ways that books might show up in people’s lives: as escape through story, as art pieces, as objects of desire.
Read moreConversations: Todd Summar with Adam McOmber
The title of Adam McOmber’s latest novel, The Ghost Finders, is deceptively simple. Occult detectives Henry Coxton, Violet Asquith, and their not-quite-human associate Christopher X search for spirits, or what they call abnaturals, as Coxton & Co. in Edwardian-era London.
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