In Chronicles of Fear - Tales of Woe, award-winning artist Nathalie Tierce bravely expresses her own worries in this collection of 27 nightmare/storybook illustrations, illuminating our concerns in the process. Each is accompanied by brief, occasionally mysterious, and frequently humorous writing. What appears to be a collection of fairy tales for kids transports the reader to the subconscious. Arresting and visually stunning. Tierce tours the painful parts of being alive through rich pictorials and narratives. She slips into the unpleasant corners of sorrow like blistered feet into tight shoes, and taps dance in them. Her characters seemed trapped in small spaces, part stage, part nightmare, part cartoon. This book takes you on a bizarre emotional and intellectual escape journey with doses of absurdity and compassion for the souls in this surreal dreamscape. The acclaimed counterculture cartoonist and artist R. Crumb wrote about Tierce, "a genuine visionary artist with a direct line to (her) subconscious."