Plucker: An Illustrated Novel By Brom - Tapa blanda

The Plucker, now updated with new art and an afterword from world-renowned dark fantasy artist Brom, is a window into a world where fairy-tale tradition collides with vileness and depravity, love and heroism, suffering and sacrifice. In this shadowy land of make-believe, Jack and his box are stuck beneath the bed with the dust, spiders, and other castaway toys, and forced to face a bitter truth: Children grow up, and toys are left behind. Jack thinks this is the worst fate that can befall a toy. But when the Plucker, a malevolent spirit, is set loose upon the world of make-believe, Jack is thrust into the unlikely role of defending Thomas, the very child who abandoned him, and learns that there are worse ends for a toy than abandonment. As desperation mounts, Jack is thrown together with Thomas's other toys-Monkey, the Nutcracker, and the ethereally beautiful porcelain doll Snow Angel-as they struggle to rise above their simple roles as playthings and save the boy they love.

Brom is the world-renowned illustrator whose vision has graced a wide range of fantasy and sci-fi fiction, games, and film, including Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. He is also the author of Devil's Rose. Brom has been active in the 3-D world as well, with a line of Brom fetish toys from Fewture and a series of bronzes from the Franklin Mint.