Russian artist Alex Andreev creates eerie images of haunted technology and otherworldly threats, from aliens to kaiju to chthonic monsters. The title image was the inspiration for a sci-fi short I am currently finishing, “They […]
Tag: horror
(Art) The High-Color Fantasy of Anato Finnstark
Freelance artist Anato Finnstark has a kind of refined speed-painting style. It doesn’t look like speed painting because of his inspired use of bright colors to create the focal point. By capturing the reader’s eye […]
(Art) The Creeping Dread of Stefan Koidl
I’ve featured Austrian artist Stefan Koidl before. His “visual horror story” about dark supernatural events at Chernobyl develops similar themes as the rest of his work: that kind of eerie, detached creepiness we feel at […]
(Art) The Epic Pulp of Les Edwards
Les Edwards is a British illustrator known for his work in the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres, and has provided numerous illustrations for book jackets, posters, magazines, record covers and games during his career. […]
(Art) The Chthonic Curiosities of Mike Dubisch
Freelance illustrator and comic artist Mike Dubisch summons the sheer swirling insanity of Lovecraft’s characters with his brush. His colorful, tumorous, tentacled creations stare at the viewer from bleak landscapes out of space and time. […]
(Art) The Dark Fantasy Portraits of Jim Pavelec
You find yourself strolling the hall of a dark house. You are most concerned with how to get out, and so, although your head is turning forward and back, you don’t at first notice the […]
(Art) The Dark Fantasy of Piotr Foksowicz
Polish artist Piotr Foksowicz paints classic dark fantasy characters and settings with a lightness of touch that makes them leap from the screen.
I had a dream based on the painting “In the Pavilion of the Red Clown” by Robert Williams. I was in a demented circus pitched in a field. There was no sense that there was […]
(Fiction) A Fitting Place For Man-Eaters
It was a fitting place for man-eaters—murderous and silent and stocked with the dead of a hundred generations. It was a fitting place to bring the departed, even those still on two feet. “Damn, this […]
(Curiosity) Writing Great Natural Magic in Fantasy
There are all different kinds of magic of course, but in fiction there are generally two: Machine Magic is usually part of a system where a certain outcome is more or less guaranteed as long […]
