"Cursed Tapestry" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Various pens and crayon on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and cosmic horror... 2020.]

Woven of an unknown substance, the cursed tapestry was discovered in the bathroom of a small diner in Winlock, Washington, USA. The establishment mysteriously caught fire and burned to the ground within hours of the tapestry being removed to the University of Henpeck, in Henpeck, Washington, for examination. The fire destroyed the building, melted the pavement leading to up to old Highway 99, and somehow caused a playground full of children, over 50 yards away, to boil...killing four people and destroying one of the few remaining metal merry-go-rounds in the country.

Many of the people who have touched the tapestry have died in some strange, although skeptics would say "coincidental," fashion: a cow fell from a cliff-side onto a motorcyclist, a regular customer of the diner,crushing her and the vintage 1961 Harley; one person drowned...in a bowl of chowder; one was impaled by pipe when a basement water-heater exploded; and the anthropologist in charge of investigating the tapestry succumbed to an infection from a nasty paper-cut; and so on...

None of this tragedy has even mentioned the DREAMS... Even looking at the tapestry has caused hideous, vivid nightmares in dozens of assistants, waitresses, and a pair of truck drivers where were chugging coffee and maple donuts at the diner when the tapestry was removed.

AND NOW, the thing has started to glow...

---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)