Mojo and the Pickle Jar

From the book by Douglas Bell, commissioned and published by Tor Books, 1991

Set in modern day West Texas, Mojo, a cholo, has a girlfriend, Juanita, who claims that the thing he caught in a pickle jar, is a demon-though it looks more like a diseased crabapple...Grandma Mojo called on the Dark Lady of Guadalupe, blue lightning struck, the Hounds of Hell came, and the saints like the Black Lord of Chalma (among others) popped up around poor, confused Mojo...

Mojo is just getting a taste of what's to come, nothing less that a portal from Hell, lots of dark magic, a really big demon to fight, and a lesson in always having a statue of Elvis in your 57' Chevy...

Oil on Masonite 18" x 26"