SettingBefore starting my thumbnails I wanted to have a good understanding of where the story itself is set, since M.R James likes to have real places in mind when writing his stories. Sadly Råbäck Manor isn't open to the public as people still live there so I was only able to get one picture of the outside. The church in the story isn't actually named and took a few rewording of google searches to get Varnhem Abbey, which was gifted to an actual Magnus Gabriel De La Gardie by a Swedish Queen. I don't think the Abbey is described exactly the same in the story, but you can definitely see that it inspired the one from the story. I think it's worth having some idea of what the author was imagining when he was describing these places, but i do plan on using my imagination and the text to draw my idea of the church and manor. 
Time Period - 1863
You will be provided with a short story and are asked to produce two illustrations to accompany it and a further front cover (and spine) design for the book 'Collected Ghost Stories of M R James'. The cover will be printed with two spot colours on a cloth binding (you may specify the colours). The cover will be 165mm wide X 231mm high. The spine will be 30mm wide X 231mm high.
One illustration is a full-page, full bleed image which should be presented as follows: CMYK - image size 160mm wide X 226mm high at a resolution of 300 dpi. Note: this dimension includes a 3mm bleed around all four sides. The second image is a black and white chapter heading that is aligned to the body of the justified text. As such it must occupy an area of 105mm wide X 50mm high. Note: there is no requirement that it has to have a crisp, rectangular edge so you may treat it as a vignette (see image below for an example). The final artwork should be presented as a 300 dpi, grayscale image. |
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