Inkswell Wright
Book cover design

The Ones Who Only Leave: Haunting Night Cover and Spine

Cover and spine design for The Ones Who Only Leave: a lone figure walking into a lamplit mountain town at night beneath a ghostly shape in the starry sky.

Scope
Front cover and spine design
Hardcover mockup of The Ones Who Only Leave: one book standing on two stacked copies, its cover showing a lone figure on a wet road leading into a lamplit mountain town past a “Welcome to Ferris Hollow” sign, with a ghostly white figure in the starry sky.

Our approach

A single figure walks a wet road towards a small valley town with lit windows and a church spire, passing a roadside sign that reads “Welcome to Ferris Hollow”. Above the mountains, a pale, smoke-like figure drifts across a starry sky, adding an eerie, supernatural note to an otherwise quiet scene.

The palette stays in deep blues, greys and black, so the weathered serif title stands out clearly at the top of the cover. The starfield continues onto the spine, where the title and name are set with an ornamental divider. It's shown here in a hardcover mockup.

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