A companion piece to last week's image of Cain, here we have Abel, caretaker of the House of Secrets.
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Excerpted from Marge Hollander's Digest of Demons and Devils:
Here is Cain from the House of Mystery. I first met Cain and his brother Abel in the early issues of Sandman, but they both appeared long before. Doing my research for this piece I never realized that Berni Wrightson was so involved with the House of Mystery. I also did not realize that it was such a long running title. I've got some back issue tracking to do. :-)
Done in an older contour style, here is a sketch of an embodiment of the mystery of the moon. There is an echo of ancient Egyptian style to the imagery and a faint feeling of the Goddess Isis within the image. These choices were not intentional at the time. I often drew in this style ecstatically with no planned intention when I began drawing. I would just begin drawing to see what emerged. This process is what evolved into the process I use to create the pieces within the Psyche Delectus Tenebrarum.
I've been drawing alot of humans in the Featured Creature lately and this week I wanted to get more creature back into the posts. This image however, turned out more comedic than scary. I figure though that somebody somewhere must be afraid of cow demon robots even if they're smiling...or maybe because they are smiling. 
An ancient witch of incredible power, Agatha Harkness first appeared in Fantastic Four #94. She was governess to Franklin Richards for many years and later became mentor the Scarlet Witch.
Here is an older unfinished sketch portrait of an angry stone faced creature. With this piece I was specifically trying to give the face the texture of a lava flow that has begun to cool and turn to stone. I can't remember if my intent for this piece was a rock like race of people or a single creature.
"The spirit of malevolence that had attached itself to the structure suffused everything with a suffocating aura of hopelessness, suffering, and despair."
Here is a second sketch and the final piece of my Golden Age Doctor Fate set. There are several characters from the early stories that I haven't addressed. I may add them to the set later, but for the time being this is the last.
