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DESTROYING ANGEL (1982)
Acrylic on Canvas - 34” x 24”
All of the concepts I submitted for the 1982 Year’s Best Horror Stories cover were strong. If I had tried to guess which one would be chosen, the concept that became this painting would have been my last guess. 1/5
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THE DOLL (1983)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 30” x 15”
There were audible rustlings in the audience when this image came up in one of my slide shows. 1/3
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TWO WORLDS (1985)
Oil on canvas - 36” x 22”
During one of the Ethiopian famines, I came across a magazine photo of a desert filled with a multitude of crude burial mounds extending off to the horizon. I was struck by the implications of the image and it stayed in my mind awaiting expression. 1/4
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BOOGEYMAN (1986)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 28” X 17”
I love doing covers for anthologies, especially horror. This piece was commissioned for the annual THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES from DAW Books. 1/4
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DEAD END (1980)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 30” x 20”
In the late 70s, all my clients were situated near each other in midtown Manhattan. To get there, I would take a train or bus to town and walk through the seedier parts of Times Square. 1/3
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13 𝘿𝒂𝙮𝒔 𝒐𝙛 𝙃𝒂𝙡𝒍𝙤𝒘𝙚𝒆𝙣: "𝑺𝙩𝒊𝙘𝒌𝙨" 𝙎𝒉𝙤𝒓𝙩 𝙎𝒕𝙤𝒓𝙮 𝙍𝒆𝙫𝒊𝙚𝒘 𝒃𝙮 𝙆𝒂𝙧𝒍 𝑬𝙙𝒘𝙖𝒓𝙙 𝙒𝒂𝙜𝒏𝙚𝒓
2025 Theme: Decades of Horror
1974, USA
https://youtube.com/shorts/rM2rTMu_XlM
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Got the new Valancourt reprint of “In A Lonely Place” for my birthday. Pretty curious about this. I’ve read all KEW’s sword & sorcery Kane stories, but very few of his straight horror stories.
I seem to recall borrowing the #RepoMan #soundtrack (#SuicidalTendencies' Institutionalized, etc.) long before seeing the #film from a weird #library used since childhood. Staffed by suspiciously quiet hippies (#Autons?), it was stocked with many strangely eclectic and rebellious items, including a lot of #punk and obscure #sciencefiction and #horror #books. My first #KanetheMysticSwordsman #swordandsorcery book, #DarkCrusade by #KarlEdwardWagner, was also from there.