Synkroniciti is overjoyed to welcome Canadian writer and photographer Kerri Merriam, our cover artist for “Haunting.” Trapped, our spine-tingling cover, is shown inside the issue in its entirety, capturing the eerie nature of haunting. Elevators and showers have powerful mythology in horror stories, and this image evokes a bit of both (this is indeed a shower, captured during the routine act of cleaning). Is someone–human, ghost or alien–trying to get out or are they trying to get in? Are they trapped…or are we? It could also be a symbol for the stories, poems and images in the issue, waiting for you to release them so that they may scare you or make you laugh or cry.
The second image presented in the issue is Wistful Watch, a winter cemetery scene. A stone angel seems to be presiding over graves, while snow dapples the ground and trees in the distance stand skeletal in the fog. We get an ominous sense of nature encroaching on the dead. The textures are varied and fascinating, accentuated by the black and white treatment. Kerri has an eye for the uncanny which suits the “Haunting” theme very well.
View Trapped and Wistful Watch in Synkroniciti’s “Haunting” issue, available for purchase here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Kerri Merriam is a Canadian photographer and author, writing in several genres. She currently has two fiction novels published, entitled Where the Trees Know You and The White Lake, as well as two smaller collections of poetry: Rhymes and Reasons, and The Inner Voice, all under the author name Kerri Merriam-Buckton. She has also had works published in various anthologies.
When she’s not writing or out taking photos of whatever catches her eye, you could find her listening to music and singing along in her car, or daydreaming of travelling the world. Hopefully not both at once. She is also a proud wife and mother to three children, who are her world and biggest supporters.