I regret that the available scan of this isn’t better because it’s a lovely, detailed piece of work. It’s Allison J. Warner’s cover for Richard Lange’s story collection Dead Boys. Warner has taken a pair of intriguing pen-and-ink drawings by Ali Campbell and layered them onto what appears to be the book jacket and a second wrapround, the latter all folded and tattered. There’s a nice play between the crispness of the line drawings (and the type, for that matter) and the murkier backgrounds they’re dropped onto. And the layering continues with the use of the inks, with the negative space of the window anchoring it all. The drawings — one the underside of a highway overpass and the other a window with a fire escape — quickly telegraph a gritty urbanness. But then what’s with the palm tree growing out of the fire escape? It’s the kind of cover that invites you to linger awhile before flipping it open.