October 26, 1973: The First Annual CryptoCon begins at the Hotel Mortaire in Seacliff, Ohio.
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July 16, 1983: Ten years after the tragic events of CryptoCon’s disastrous debut, Star House Books’ Thopher van Glaumire is granted an exclusive interview with the reclusive Medieval scholar W.A. Skinner. For reasons unknown, the interview is never presented to the public, its notes and source materials hidden away, lost and forgotten for more than forty years.
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December 31, 2025: SHB publishes Skulls With Eyeballs In Them Volume 2, featuring 50 previously unseen drawings by the legendary and mythical artist known as Barn Quivver MacAnüs.
FEATURES FOR THIS EDITION:
Illustrated by Barn Quivver MacAnüs (Allegedly)
50 never-before-seen B&W illustrations (Unverifiable and just as Disestablished & Uncorroborated as those of the previous volume)
198 pages
8.5 x 11 inches, perfect bound
Front Matter includes: About the Artist, Notes from the Publishers, and Interviewer
ISBN: 9798261748816
Imprint: Independently published
This book is a facsimile presentation of a previously unpublished SHB project circa 1983. The art files, photographs, text drafts, and partially typeset galleys were recently discovered tucked away in the furthest recesses of Star House Books’ vast basement archives.
The fifty drawings presented herein mark a milestone of aesthetic elevation for their purported creator Barn Quivver MacAnüs. According to W.A. Skinner (one of the world’s foremost experts on Medieval art and ephemera) these drawings are considered the artist’s “high period” with regards to both technique and emotion.
The existence of Barn Quivver the artist, father, husband, and alleged shape-shifting consumer of human flesh still remains difficult to substantiate. Archaeologists and documentarians consider the nearly immortal Luchd-Ithe Bàis or "Death Eaters" to be a mythological fabrication, one that should be dismissed to the pseudosciences of Anthropomorphology and Cryptozoology.
Clan marks of the Luchd-Ithe Bàis.
Exclusive to this edition and in print for the first time:
50 previously unpublished drawings by the chimeric Medieval artist known as Barn Quivver MacAnüs, plus Topher van Glaumire’s 1983 landmark interview with W.A. Skinner.
Additional background and commentary:
CryptoCon ‘73
The Seacliff Disappearings
The Hotel Mortaire
The Linford Memorial Psychiatric Hospital and Sanitarium