The novel, though, has something of an inverse creepiness. “Creepy” suggests a sort of in-your-face nastiness. Not that A High Wind in Jamaica is creepy, exactly. In its creepiness, “Storm brewing” is a much more apt image for the cover of the Hughes novel than that “cute” kid one from 1961. Like much of Darger’s art, there is a strangeness to this image, emphasizing the bare legs, arms and faces of the girls and their vulnerability and suggesting a danger greater than simply getting wet.Īs it is, the illustration is creepy, but it’s even creepier if you know that Darger’s obsessively created manuscripts and collections include many images of young nude girls, sometimes undergoing violence and death.
This image shows several little girls, dressed in short skirts, fleeing with over-the-shoulder looks a dark storm of black, brown and gray that takes up the top half of the work.
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