Evil Dead The first Evil Dead might have been a groundbreaking movie for the time, but it arrived on the screen a little too early! I was still a teenager, living in white-trash northern Florida with my conservative, military parents,...

Dead Alive For years, Evil Dead was my favorite movie. I even have it tattooed on my knuckles! There were plenty of horror fans telling me that the new version of Sam Ramia was New Zealand's Peter Jackson. I eventually saw his...

Lovecraft Monsters Back in the late '80s, I picked up a Lovecraft collection from Tower Records. The cover art, by Michael Whelan, drew me in, and when I read it, my world changed. This was the first time I really...

Chimera States Ian Domowitz asked me to portray a praying mantis (but make it evil he insisted) and a sort of steampunk girl with goggles and gears in her hair, back to back in what he described as "a Charlie's...

Latest Podcast In this latest episode of my long running podcast, horror author and recent escapee from the realm of Hollywood script writing TJ Payne(hey, Stephen King likes his work; how bad can he be?) talks with me about his...

It's Alive! Frankenstein’s monster (not Frankenstein, that was the doctor) is iconic and a great story. Unfortunately, Hollywood has so overused the image that the original fable has been severely diluted, but I’m still a sucker for any well-rendered image...

Ukrainian author Петро Гузік (I think I have his name right) interviews me for an audience he says loves my work. How could I turn that down? It was an added bonus when I saw some of the other authors interviewed! Joe...

Classic Horror Movies The Mummy is one of those classic horror characters that never quite gets his due. As an image, it’s a nice mix of texture and realism, and the backstory is really original, but the character never quite garnered...

The illustration for Dan's new novel Started the first illustration for my new Cosmic Terror novel, D-Day is Here. See my previous 3 novels that led up to this here! All are heavily illustrated (you can tell I started out as...

New Book Cover Finished up this painting for Ian Domowitz's new book, Chimera StatesHe paid me for the art, but I told him I'd do him a favor and help him format it as well.You can see more of my...