Nebel Über Dunklen Mooren
Cover concepts for Nebel über dunklen Mooren, the first book in Finn Achtermann’s German dark fantasy series Die Geisterjäger von Brunswiek. The book was published independently on Amazon in January 2022, as a Kindle e-book and a paperback of about 100 pages.
The story follows Withe and Flora, who call themselves Geisterkundige, or ghost experts, though most people simply know them as the ghost hunters of Brunswiek. When two peat cutters are found dead in the moor, the pair are sent from Braunschweig to Lüneburg to find out whether it was an accident or something darker, and how the strange haunting in the castle on the Kalkberg is connected. The series is set about 700 years in the past and blends dark fantasy, horror, history and steampunk. It is serial fiction, with short novels of around 100 pages released regularly.
The covers were created using photo compositing techniques, with page layout in Adobe Illustrator. Bright colours were replaced with a grey cast to emphasise the misty, mysterious atmosphere.
