Vermis I – Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods: Lore Game Book by Plastiboo
Presented as an official guide to a game that does not exist, Vermis I – Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods operates through the logic of absence. Plastiboo constructs a world from the inside out: inventories, creatures, locations, and implied rule systems — all the apparatus of a classic dungeon crawler manual, assembled without a playable game behind it. The object functions as a lore game book, a reference artifact for a fiction that never shipped.
The visual register is deliberate and controlled. Each spread sustains the illusion of a functional system — clinical layouts, pixel-era fantasy aesthetics, the dry authority of an RPG manual — while remaining firmly in the territory of contemporary dark fantasy illustration. There is no playable content, no mechanics to resolve. What remains is world-building in its most distilled form: atmosphere, taxonomy, and dread, rendered in full colour across 128 pages.
This tenth printing (July 2025) is the standard softcover edition, published by Hollow Press. The book is offset printed in full colour, stitched, and produced in a 14 × 22 cm pocket format — portable and durable, closer in spirit to a field guide than a display object. Edited by Michele Nitri, with design by Marco Cirillo Pedri.
Also in the Vermis series
A variant of this volume is available as the Vermis I - Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods (Forsaken Edition). The series continues with Vermis II - Mist & Mirrors by Plastiboo, also available as the Vermis II - Mist & Mirrors (Forsaken Edition). Further titles from the same imprint are collected in the Artbooks section.
About Plastiboo
Plastiboo is a Spanish illustrator and game artist whose practice merges horror, surrealism, and video game logic into dense visual worlds. Their drawings frequently resemble screenshots from impossible games: interfaces without clear rules, levels that never load, characters suspended between bodies and icons.
Working across books, zines, and digital projects, Plastiboo constructs immersive universes populated by eerie creatures, derelict architectures, and a persistent undertow of questions about memory, agency, and decay. Vermis I – Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods and Godhusk – Rebirth are among the works that have positioned Plastiboo as a significant figure in contemporary dark-fantasy illustration and experimental game-adjacent art.
