Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. Here is an excerpt from the pages of volume five, Emerald Tendrils:
Then the mirror begins to crack. The hand clenches, as if in sudden pain.
More cracks appear.
The flowers mutter. They slacken and droop.
The hand begins to withdraw, grasping at empty air as it recedes.
Just before it vanishes, it makes a beckoning motion, as if to follow it.
Then it sinks into the mirror and is gone.
Emerald Tendrils contains chapters 64 through 77 of Ripponlea and includes nine illustrations.