diff --git a/internal/services/image_processor/types.go b/internal/services/image_processor/types.go
index 95fe862..572a1c8 100644
--- a/internal/services/image_processor/types.go
+++ b/internal/services/image_processor/types.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ const (
 	DataTypeStaff     DataType = imagepath.TypeStaff
 	DataTypeBanner    DataType = imagepath.TypeBanner
 	DataTypePoster    DataType = imagepath.TypePoster
+	DataTypeWork      DataType = imagepath.TypeWork
 )
 
 type Payload struct {
diff --git a/internal/services/imagepath/imagepath.go b/internal/services/imagepath/imagepath.go
index a429b05..461bde6 100644
--- a/internal/services/imagepath/imagepath.go
+++ b/internal/services/imagepath/imagepath.go
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ const (
 	// fills a phone hero. Both are 2:3 "posters" in the everyday sense, so the
 	// distinction is: root = whatever the scraper had, /posters/ = the good one.
 	TypePoster = "Poster"
+
+	// TypeWork is a source work's cover -- manga, light novel, novel. Kept under
+	// its own prefix rather than at the root beside anime because the root is
+	// keyed by anime id and a work id there would be indistinguishable from one,
+	// which is exactly the kind of collision this package exists to prevent.
+	TypeWork = "Work"
 )
 
 // For builds the object path for an image record.
@@ -47,6 +53,8 @@ func For(dataType, id, name string) (string, bool) {
 		return "/banners/" + key, true
 	case TypePoster:
 		return "/posters/" + key, true
+	case TypeWork:
+		return "/works/" + key, true
 	default:
 		return "", false
 	}
diff --git a/internal/services/imagepath/imagepath_test.go b/internal/services/imagepath/imagepath_test.go
index c62a85f..3f4b242 100644
--- a/internal/services/imagepath/imagepath_test.go
+++ b/internal/services/imagepath/imagepath_test.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ func TestFor(t *testing.T) {
 		{"staff", TypeStaff, id, "", "/staff/" + id, true},
 		{"banner", TypeBanner, id, "", "/banners/" + id, true},
 		{"poster is its own path, not the root", TypePoster, id, "", "/posters/" + id, true},
+		{"work", TypeWork, id, "", "/works/" + id, true},
 
 		// Name is only a fallback for messages published before producers sent
 		// ids: in-flight during a rolling deploy, and the retry topic.
@@ -64,4 +65,15 @@ func TestPosterDoesNotCollideWithAnimeRoot(t *testing.T) {
 	if root == poster {
 		t.Fatalf("anime and poster resolved to the same path %q", root)
 	}
+
+	// A work and an anime are different records that could share an id shape.
+	// If a work ever landed at the root it would overwrite an anime's poster,
+	// and nothing downstream would report it -- the upload succeeds either way.
+	work, ok := For(TypeWork, id, "")
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("work path not ok")
+	}
+	if work == root {
+		t.Fatalf("work and anime resolved to the same path %q", work)
+	}
 }