In each compelling image in this composite anthology, Jerry Craven gives the viewer something easily relatable, but he imbeds these elements in a context that defies time and space and rational probability. With his playful juxtaposition of component parts and his ramped-up color palette, Craven enhances the magic of each piece of digital art.

In their ekphrastic responses to Craven’s visual stimuli, all three literary artists—Andrew Geyer, Terry Dalrymple, and Craven himself—make reference to items found in the graphic work. Thus, in Terry Dalrymple’s “Egret Angel,” a white heron such as the one pictured in Craven’s graphic art knocks on the narrator’s front door; in Andrew Geyer’s “The Magical Bunnell Place,” the marsh-surrounded bungalow in Craven’s image supplies the story’s primary setting.

In this volume, subtitled “electric ekphrastics,” we confront a world both visual and verbal, where both Jules Verne and Isaac Asimov might feel at home.