It gets pride of place in the back-cover blurb (below), but time-traveling Edvard Munch only shows up briefly as a story idea within the frame story, such as it is; Munch's painting "Puberty" and its model are a recurring theme, though.
"Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice and her hatred, things start stirring themselves up around her. In a corner of Oslo, a coven of witches begins cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a black metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. Awful things happen in aspic." [x]
(Interestingly, this description also makes it sound like the Artist - aka the narrator - and the coven of witches are separate, when to my understanding, the coven of witches was the Artist and her friends...?)
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Date: 2025-03-01 12:51 am (UTC)"Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice and her hatred, things start stirring themselves up around her. In a corner of Oslo, a coven of witches begins cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a black metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. Awful things happen in aspic." [x]
(Interestingly, this description also makes it sound like the Artist - aka the narrator - and the coven of witches are separate, when to my understanding, the coven of witches was the Artist and her friends...?)