{"title":"Clay McLeod Chapman","description":"Clay McLeod Chapman is the creator of \"The Pumpkin Pie Show\" and the author of Rest Area, Nothing Untoward, and The Tribe trilogy. He is the co-author, with Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick, of the middle grade novel Wendell and Wild. In the world of comics, Chapman's work includes Lazaretto, Iron Fist: Phantom Limb, and Edge of Spiderverse. 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Dawson. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt sixty-six years old, Winston Kemper has always been a nonentity. No one notices him. His simple existence barely registers for those who come into contact with him. Some call him feeble-minded. He is a janitor at the local church, a groundskeeper by default, and that's it. No friends, no family. When he's done with work, he returns home--a remote, single room apartment located above a garage--and that is where his true work begins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinston Kemper is a collector of voices, and his magnum opus--\u003ci\u003eThe Butterfly Girls\u003c\/i\u003e--is a sprawling epic of untapped imagination. It has no single canvas, no particular frame. It is everywhere--scribbled on the walls, the floor, and countless notebooks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinston is creating a fantasia which exists in words, images and blood. As part of his 'art' he has been murdering forgotten women. 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