Vermis I – Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods (Forsaken Edition)
Vermis I – Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods is a large-format hardcover artbook by Plastiboo, published by Hollow Press. Conceived as the illustrated guide to a non-existent video game, it constructs a dense fictional world drawing from dungeon crawlers, dark fantasy, and surreal horror — populated by monstrous creatures, arcane relics, and forbidden landscapes rendered in vivid full color.
The Forsaken Edition
This hardcover edition is distinguished by its physical production. The front cover carries 3D embossed and debossed relief work; the back cover is debossed. A double tissue bookmark in black and green is bound into the volume. Interior printing is vivid full color throughout. The object materially differs from the standard softcover release of Vermis I – Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods. This fourth printing is limited to 3000 copies.
The Vermis Series
The series continues with Vermis II – Mist & Mirrors (Forsaken Edition), also available as the softcover Vermis II – Mist & Mirrors. Further entries include Vermis III – Old Curses & Buried Horrors and its hardcover counterpart Vermis III – Old Curses & Buried Horrors (Forsaken Edition). Additional titles in this category are available in the Artbooks collection.
About Plastiboo
Plastiboo is an independent artist and visual worldbuilder whose practice spans illustration, speculative design, and fictional lore construction. Working at the intersection of retro game interfaces, horror motifs, and invented mythology, he has built a body of work that operates as much as a system of objects as a sequence of images.
His published works include Vermis, Godhusk, and other titles produced under the LORE Game Books imprint. These publications circulate within the overlapping spheres of zines, indie publishing, and experimental narrative objects — formats that resist easy categorization between artist book, game supplement, and illustrated fiction.
