What Lies in the Garden was made as the cover of a prospective retelling of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden—but with vampires. It was created during my time in the Book Publishing Practicum at York University.
To design this cover, I relied on Victorian gothic aesthetics, with a darker colour scheme that nods to the vampiric allusions in the story.
The painting and interior illustrations are all public domain. The front cover painting is heavily modified to have a darker, richer colour scheme that fits in with the rest of the design.
The final cover has small details like a bat, blood, a key and a rose, referencing the original text with new vampiric details.