Nightmares in the Sky

Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques is a coffee table book about architectural gargoyles and grotesques, photographed by f-stop Fitzgerald (Richard Minissali) with accompanying text by Stephen King, and published in 1988. An excerpt was published in the September 1988 issue of Penthouse. Some of the images in the book were used as textures in the video games Doom and Doom II,^[1] as well as Witchaven, ShadowCaster, and The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall.^[2]

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Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques

First edition cover
Author	Stephen King
Illustrator	f-stop Fitzgerald
Language	English
Subject	Architecture
Published	1988 (Viking Studio Books)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	128
ISBN	978-0-670-82307-9
Preceded by	Danse Macabre (book)
Followed by	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Reception

Kirkus Reviews found some King's text took a "teen stance" occasionally, but that it "evokes the weight and brooding presence" of gargoyles, coming to a possibility to their purpose quoting King, "venting the waste material of our own hidden fears". However, it was the stark photographs from f-stop Fitzgerald that truly stood out to the reviewer.^[3]