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: supernatural
(Art) The Fairy Illustration of Ed Binkley
American artist and illustrator Ed Binkley has been featured numerous time in Spectrum, the annual anthology of the best in fantastic art. I got the chance to go to the Spectrum con in Kansas City […]
(Curiosity) Not Right
Ne Fas Day From the Latin ne meaning not, and fas, which is more difficult to translate since there isn’t an English cognate. Roman society, like all classical societies — including those that still exist […]
(Art) The Merry Occult of Tin Can Forest
Somewhere between a classic fairy tale and a modern pagan horror lies the work of Canadian duo Tin Can Forest, whose eerily whimsical illustrations seem torn from the pages of a lost tome, “The Children’s […]
Tomiyuki Kaneko – “Yokai Sushi” Yokai is often translated as “ghost” or “monster” but it’s something closer to “supernatural being.” While yokai stories are properly classified as ghost stories, the creatures in them are not […]
First taste of Bright Black
Here is the first bite of an opening scene, which follows directly after the events of the last two. The only real spoiler is that the narrators from the first four courses of the book return […]
