Toward Ecosophy

I'm very pleased to report that the revised and corrected second edition of my seven-volume epic fantasy with tentacles, The Weird of Hali, is coming along well; many thanks to everyone who helped chase down typos and other mistakes in the original printings. The publisher is gearing up to commission cover art -- no, the image on the left isn't one of the covers. (That's just Asenath Merrill saying a little prayer after Sunday school.)

The question the publisher and I have is what would be the best scenes from the novels to illustrate for the cover art, and the suggestion was raised that, since I have the best commentariat on the internet, I should toss it to you. So we're going to have a little contest among those who've read one or more of the volumes of The Weird of Hali. 

What image from each book would you like to see illustrated on the cover of each of the seven volumes? 

Here are the rules: 

1) Each contestant can propose one scene from each book. 

2) If the scene has already been proposed, attach your comment to the original proposal in this comment thread. 

3) If you're the first one to post a given suggestion, either post it via a Dreamwidth account or include some identifying info in the post, because...

4) The person who proposes the image that gets the most votes for each book will get a free copy of the new edition of that book, straight from the publisher.  

One more note -- this is just for the seven volumes of The Weird of Hali. The four additional novels -- The Shoggoth Concerto, The Nyogtha Variations, A Voyage to Hyperborea, and The Seal of Yueh Lao -- will be published a little later, and I'll do another contest when their turn comes to get cover art commissioned. 

So there you are. I'm delighted to see the new edition coming along, and I think you'll be pleased with them also.