On This, The Day of the Pig

Artist: Slasher Dave

Jeff looked over his shoulder back to the hidden pigpen.

Pearl was all he could see. Pearl. Sitting on his ass like a person might, his front hooves limp at the sides of his belly, his head was cocked slightly to the side, his pink ears straight high above his head. His bad eye looked dark, hidden, but his good one was fixed on Jeff.

In it, Jeff saw an intelligence that scared him.

A half smile appeared under the pig's snout, or maybe it was just the way his lips naturally curled up at their ends.

Jeff fingered the latch. Pearl watched him. Staring. Assessing. Planning?

Jeff pulled his fingers away. A streak of shame ran down his back, like he'd come close to letting something very bad out of the pen...

Limited Edition Specifications:

• Limited to just 1,000 signed copies
• Personally signed by the author on a unique signature page
• Printed on 60# acid-free paper
• Featuring a high-end binding with colored head and tail bands
• Printed and bound with full-color marbled endpapers
• Sewn-in ribbon page marker
• Featuring hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Smyth sewn to create a more durable binding
• Limited ONE TIME printing of this special edition

Lettered Edition - Earthling Publications 2021

Originally published by Cemetery Dance last year as a 1000-copy numbered hardcover, has been given the extra special treatment! Earthling and CD have collaborated on a lettered edition: same awesome tale/inside but features a new limitation page with artwork by Glenn Chadbourne commissioned just for this edition, is signed by both author and artist, and is hand sewn into boards featuring pig-colored leather and handmade paper that has straw-like inclusions (in honor of the main character's barn throne), with Bugra endpapers. The book is enclosed in a handmade traycase featuring matching leather and black Asahi Japanese cloth, and is lined with black suede.

26 lettered, traycased hardcovers, book and traycase completely hand made using the finest materials, and signed by Malerman and Chadbourne