As you might've seen in the bottom of the novel's description, The cover image is a painting by Swedish artist [John Bauer]

He died on 20 November 1918 and it is his death's Centenary. I find his troll paintings marvelous and will use several of them as inspiration for Grendel's evolutions.

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Anyway, I am going to celebrate the painter and illustrator by releasing an entire story arc over the course of a week starting with the 20th. There will be two chapters every day until the arc ends (it is 12 chapters long). It will eat a page of my buffer, but there is little use sitting on that many drafts.

Here is a teaser of the new arc:

Some new contenders will step out of the shadows and throw the gauntlet straight at Grendel's face, hitting where it hurts more. How will he react?