You Will Welcome Death
Some may remember sitting in a darkened room, watching Rod Serling’s “Night Gallery.” Each episode began with an unusual painting, about which Mr. Serling would deliver a brief monolog, something along these lines: “Consider, if you will, what may be the most well-known and oft-copied works of a man named Henry Fuseli, scholar, man of the cloth, and painter of the different and disturbing. Like many artists, he sketched sometimes before mixing his pigments. The subject of our tale is a simple pencil drawing, perhaps a preliminary study for Fuseli’s “The Nightmare” paintings. “Carl Singleton is a would-be art dealer. We will let him tell you about his find himself.” Not many people showed up for the widow Collins’ sale that dank October day. The house was slated for demolition to allow construction of a …