“From Beyound”: An Immersive And Dark Experiences In Haunting Artworks Of Maxim Kostin
Discover the art of Maxim Kostin, a Russian freelance illustrator and concept artist based in Penza. Continue reading »
Weird, Provocative And Unusual Anatomical Jewelry By Polina Verbytska
According to Polina Verbytska: “I spend long hours creating my art – fantastic figures, “frozen” in clear spheres. I use polymer clay to sculpt and resin to cover it. Although most of my sculptures are large, I feel that there is something special about miniatures. This technique allows me to bring images from my deep subconscious to life. Continue reading »
“Asylum Of Shadows”: Horror, Nightmares And Dreams In Metal Albums Art By Ken Sarafin
“Metal bands want to portray the opposite of a happy life on their album covers,” says Ken Sarafin, and the Vale of Pnath frontman knows from whence he speaks. In addition to creating the awe-inducing artwork for his band’s latest release, The Prodigal Empire, Sarafin has illustrated at least a dozen album covers for an array of acts, both local and national, including Axeslasher, Listen to Reason, Exotype, Acedia, Arcania, Blue Waffle and Voiceless Location, among others. Continue reading »
“Schoolgirl Nightmares”: Bizarre And Horror Paintings By Kazuhiro Hori
The world can be a cruel place.
But in it, Japanese artist Kazuhiro Hori sees young girls as the quintessential embodiment of innocence and purity. Channeling this outlook, his illustrations depict nightmarish worlds populated by rosy-cheeked schoolgirls in distress. Continue reading »
Kawaii, Fetish, Bizarre, Cruel: The Art Of GENk
The fearful is beautiful, the horrific is erotic. Both kawaii and fear coexist in his paintings. The adorable and the strange based on bloody fantasy and insanity with a tinge of the occult. Even in his most intensely individual works, many people have been charmed by the alluring gazes of the girls in his paintings and by his beautiful expressions of blood. Combining elements of the kawaii, the fetish, the erotic and the cruel, GENk’s paintings are both visually arresting and alluring, disturbing and enticing. Continue reading »
“Serenade In Blood Minor”: Fascinating Horror Sculptures By Viktor Makov
Viktor Makov is the owner and sculptor of Monsterskaya studio based in Russia. He sculpts your favourite horror villians on everything from busts, phone cases, keyrings and so on. Continue reading »
These Creepy And Disturbing Vintage Easter Bunny Photos That Will Make Your Skin Crawl
Easter is a bizarre holiday. The dead returning to life. Bunny shaped chocolates. Painting and hiding eggs… and handing your children over to strange adults poorly dressed as humanoid rabbits. Here’s a collection of vintage Easter bunny photos that will make your skin crawl. Continue reading »
Inspired By H.P. Lovecraft, This Bizarre Photography Series Is About The Global Problem Of Water Pollution
According to photographer Markus Aspegren: “This photo series is a story of nature and people. The making was at once both burdensome and awesome. Many months these images haunted my dreams and permeated my thoughts for much of my waking hours. This work used up my strength, time and money. And at each session, it gave something back. This series’ intention is to stir up emotion also in the audience. Bring the mind to the present. To tell a story of our waters.” Continue reading »
“The End Begun”: Superb Sculptures From The Outworld By Kenny Carmody
Kenny Carmody is a professional 3D Character Artist at Cloud Imperium Games with talent that stretches across modeling, texturing, and concept development, where he displays an incredible eye for lighting and detail. He has most recently worked on films such as The Mummy, Godzila: King of Monsters, Alita: Battle Angel and others. Continue reading »
Lovecraftian Horror Unleashed In The Murky Depths Of Green Tea
Unless you’ve experienced some horrible beverage-related trauma, it’s unlikely that you find much about green tea to be terrifying. Japanese Twitter user and 3DCG practitioner gigigi gagaga (@toikoh9114) might have you thinking differently, however. @toikoh9114 took advantage of of the turbidity found in a glass of green tea to create a spooky scene of alien horror that might fit in most H. P. Lovecraft universes. Continue reading »
“Gothic Times”: Artist Spends 14 Months Creating The Most Incredible Ghost Pirate Ship Sculpture
Jason Stieva has been doing Gothic assemblage art for roughly two decades, but his most intricate and impressive creation has to be the Leviathan – Ark of Apocalypse, an 8 feet high, 7.5 feet long ghost ship populated by hundreds of strange creatures. Continue reading »
“To Live For My Death”: The Deadliest, Badass & Nightmare Creatures Of Antonio José Manzanedo
The dark and macabre fantasy paintings of digital artist Antonio José Manzanedo (previously), a concept designer and illustrator based in Spain. Continue reading »
The Mysterious And Misty Eerieness Of Japanese Horror Illustrator Mozza
Student and illustrator Mozza is a fan of the horror genre with a particular fixation on mist or fog to convey a sense of eerieness, uncanniness, a border space between the world of the living and the world of the dead, or the physical manifestation of a malefic presence. Moreover, this extends to her use of colors and textures to blur boundaries and distinctions between dark and light. Continue reading »
“Eaters Of The Dead”: The Outstanding, Totally Creepy And Nightmarish Pagan Artworks By Yuri Hill
Yuri Hill is a young freelance digital artist based in Ukraine. And his art is a totally creepy as hell! Just sit back and enjoy. Continue reading »
From The Depths Of Your Nightmares – The Fantastically Disturbing Creepy Art Of Trevor Henderson
One of my favorite things happening on the internet is this series from Trevor Henderson, which mashes real photographs with drawings of original monsters and wraps them together in found footage-style packaging. “Found footage” is typically a filmmaking style, of course, but Henderson’s photo-drawings cut out all the filler and get right to the goods. Continue reading »
“The Morning Never Came”: Amazing Fantasy Illustrations By Adrian Smith
The awesome fantasy illustrations of Adrian Smith, a freelance illustrator, concept designer and comic book artist based in Edinburgh. Adrian’s drawing, character and figure work is just incredible, fantasy art doesn’t get any better than this. Adrian and Ian Miller are especially well known for their work in the early days of Warhammer and 40k in creating a dark serious atmospheric setting. Smith has illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game. Continue reading »
“Initiation Into Nothingness”: A Separate Reality And Dreamy Otherworlds In Incredible Artworks By Alex Andreev
Alexey Andreev (b. 1972) is a Russian artist, lives and works in Saint-Petersburg, and he is one of my favorite illustrators ever. Just sit back, relax and enjoy. Continue reading »
Last Breath: Amazing Dark Horror, Bizarre And Nightmare Paintings By Oleg Vdovenko
Science fiction horrors from the depths of Russian artist Oleg Vdovenko’s imagination. Continue reading »
“Heaven’s Hell”: The Book Of Afterlife Adventures By Anthony Jones
Heaven’s Hell – The Art of Anthony Jones (previously), a beautifully presented, 128 page soft back art book from publisher Design Studio Press. This book explores the world of Heaven’s Hell, a place that takes place in the afterlife. The premise is that when you die, your spirit or soul is transported to another realm of being. Continue reading »
“Bloody Kisses”: Horror, Dark And Obscure Self-Destructed Photo Portraits Of Jenn Violetta
Jenn Violetta is an artist with a dark and stormy photographic work. What we know is that her name (or nickname) is Jenn Violetta, she probably lives in Seattle and she makes amazing dark digital photo manipulations. She usually depicts her head exclusively, and her style is dark, creepy and often disturbing. In every one of her works, her face appears someway ruined, with blood flowing from scars or from the mouth with black-and-blue lips as if she has been beaten. Her skin is livid, covered in bandages at times, or juxtaposed together with flames and smoke. Continue reading »
Artist Turned Disney Princesses Into Maniacs From Horror Movies
Have you ever wonder, if famous maniacs and characters from the horror movies would be Disney Princesses? Russian artist Andrew Tarusov (previously) has illustrated a series of posters depicting Disney princesses as characters from the classic horror movies. Continue reading »
Ed Gein Style Horror Jacket Is The Most Terrifying Jacket Ever
Behold! This fashion statement might literally change your life.
Handmade by creatives Kayla Arena and Toby Barron, this jacket is made to look as if it were made from human flesh. Known as the as the Ed Gein Serial Killer Jacket, this terrifying fashion piece is guaranteed to turn heads. Continue reading »
Fantastic And Frightening Horror Portraits Painted With Wine
Early on in her career Canadian painter Melissa Proudlock would experience anxiety attacks over using colour in her work. She’s red / green colour blind and would constantly worry if she was painting with the correct colour. That lead her down the unusual path of switching out her watercolours for different varietals of wine. Here: Chucky created using Pinot Noir and Baco Noir. Continue reading »
Photographer Dad Creates Horror Photos Together With His Daughters
There are many joys to being a parent, but none quite as much as being able to use your young daughters to recreate gruesome and surreal scenarios that look like the stuff of nightmares. Take a look at these pictures to see what we mean, but before you start worrying, rest assured that these kids are more than happy to feature in their dad’s creepy photography! Continue reading »
The Realistic Zombie Mugs Every Horror Fan Should Have
Buford, Georgia-based artist Kevin Merck creates hyper-realistic zombie mugs that are scarier than Monday mornings. Cue sound effects: dun-dun-dun-dun! A teacher by day and a self-taught ceramicist by night, Merck used to sculpt horror-themed mugs only around Halloween. Continue reading »
