Well of Nightclaws

retro fantasy illustration, shadow demon hunched beneath a village well’s wooden roof, claw testing the moonlit water’s surface, weathered bucket and rope swaying, lone moth circling the lantern, night mist pooling over cobbles, pale rim light from the moon carving a jagged silhouette, tense and breath-held mood, slate blues and sickly violet with soot-black shadows, ink-and-wash linework with flat muted colors, paperback-era sword-and-sorcery tone