title: Ben Templesmiths Art of Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse
author:  Ben Templesmith 
description: <b>Ben Templesmith</b>is a<i>New York Times</i>best selling artist and writer most widely known for his work in the comic book industry where he has received multiple nominations for the International Horror Guild Awards as well as the industry's top prize, the Eisner Award. He also won a Spike TV Scream Award. As a creator, his most notable works have been<i>30 Days of Night</i>(which spawned a major motion picture) and<i>Fell</i>. His other projects include the critically acclaimed serial<i>Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse</i>, as well as<i>Welcome to Hoxford</i>, and<i>Singularity 7</i>, all of which he also wrote.
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  # After the Funeral
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # After the Funeral
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  After the Funeral
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # After the Funeral
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter 1
  
  
  Old Lanscombe moved totteringly from room to room, pulling up the blinds. Now
  and then he peered with screwed up rheumy eyes through the windows.
  
  
  Soon they would be coming back from the funeral. He shuffled along a little
  faster. There were so many windows.
  
  
  Enderby Hall was a vast Victorian house built in the Gothic style. In every
  room the curtains were of rich faded brocade or velvet. Some of the walls were
  still hung with faded silk. In the green drawing-room, the old butler glanced
  up at the portrait above the mantelpiece of old Cornelius Abernethie for whom
  Enderby Hall had been built. Cornelius Abernethie's brown beard stuck forward
  aggressively, his hand rested on a terrestrial globe, whether by desire of the
  sitter, or as a symbolic conceit on the part of the artist, no one could tell.
  
  
  A very forceful looking gentleman, so