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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.7.224
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 11:31 pm:   

I just came across these while looking for pictures of spooky churches. Nice to see Lovecraftian artwork that are atmosphere pieces instead of dramatic painting of Cthulhu clinging to the ruins of R'Lyeh.

http://peteamachree.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d1r8i8z

http://peteamachree.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d1ri5hq

The guy's whole gallery is worth a look, there's some brilliantly moody Tolkein and post-apocalyptic stuff there.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.183.126.98
Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 12:12 am:   

Beautiful stuff, David.
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.24.18.70
Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 12:42 am:   

Stunning work!

I would note, however, that Lovecraft described the nave of the church in question as 'almost eldritch', while the image in the second picture is of a nave whose eldritchness none would dispute.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 07:29 am:   

Incredible stuff!
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 82.31.30.158
Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 07:44 am:   

Joel makes a lucid point. :-)
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
Posted on Friday, December 30, 2011 - 10:34 pm:   

Superb artwork! This guy should be doing book covers, if he isn't already.
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 61.216.47.185
Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2011 - 05:22 am:   

Very atmospheric and evocative indeed - and, as Joel pointed out, eldritch beyond dispute! Thanks for sharing, David.
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.28.28
Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 08:59 pm:   

Oh hey, here's another horror artist I've been quite impressed with. His work covers everything from gothic to J-horror, vampires to Lovecraft. There's quite a few images in his gallery I thought would be great inspiration for short stories.

http://super-sheep.deviantart.com/
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.61.240
Posted on Friday, July 27, 2012 - 02:21 pm:   

Found another artist who does some quite atmospheric Lovecraft work: http://s-caruso.deviantart.com/art/Esoteric-Order-of-Dagon-133571117

There's a few more pieces in his gallery: http://s-caruso.deviantart.com/gallery/
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.196
Posted on Friday, July 27, 2012 - 06:47 pm:   

Some excellent artwork there! I think I've heard the name S. Caruso somewhere before - perhaps he's done artwork for the Lovecraft Zine or something like that?

The other guy's great too.

There's some brilliant stuff on that deviantart site - but some rubbish too!
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.61.240
Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2012 - 12:25 am:   

Yes, I find the best way to explore Deviant Art is browsing through the "Favourites" galleries of artists you like, finding new artists and browsing their favourites and so on. I tend to stay away from the frontpage.

Many years ago it was a very good artists community, unfortunately now it seems to be home to a lot of amateur porn and poor-quality teenage anime fan art. There's still gold there, though.
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.61.240
Posted on Sunday, July 29, 2012 - 03:16 pm:   

Not DeviantArt this time, or necessarily Lovecraftian, but this Japanese artist has a wonderfully nightmarish series of paintings depicting massive red organic growths spreading across bleak, grim cityscapes.

http://doumyakutosi.tumblr.com/
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.149.35.184
Posted on Monday, July 30, 2012 - 01:31 am:   

pic

the artist is Lucy Glendinning, the work is called "Feather Child"
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Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen

Registered: 09-2009
Posted From: 86.131.45.253
Posted on Monday, July 30, 2012 - 01:11 pm:   

Those are all fantastic!
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.8.23.149
Posted on Monday, July 30, 2012 - 01:13 pm:   

I'd certainly call quite a few of those Lovecraftian!
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.145.133.31
Posted on Friday, August 03, 2012 - 12:46 am:   

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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.145.133.31
Posted on Friday, August 03, 2012 - 12:48 am:   

still not as disturbing as the feather child picture I posted earlier
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.61.240
Posted on Saturday, August 11, 2012 - 04:54 pm:   

http://buzzbee.hubpages.com/hub/The-Gruesome-Macabre-Chilling-Art-of-Mark-Powell

Some truly nightmarish dioramas and sculptures.
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.45.63
Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2012 - 10:17 am:   

Alberto Breccia's comic adaptation of The Dunwich Horror. The English translation and the original Spanish version for comparison. http://www.raggedclaws.com/home/2010/09/22/look-here-read-the-dunwich-horror-ada pted-by-breccia-and-buscaglia/
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.45.63
Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2012 - 10:18 am:   

Gallery of some of the artwork from John Coulthart's Lovecraft adaptations. Click on the covers for the individual galleries. http://www.johncoulthart.com/retinacula/lovecraft.html
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 178.116.61.103
Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2012 - 12:05 pm:   

I have both the Coulthart and the Brecchia. The adaptation of "The Dunwich Horror" is part of an entire book of Lovecraft stories, Cthulhu, Les Humanoides Associés 1978, which also includes adaptations of "The Festival", "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Colour out of Space", "The Shadow over Innsmouth", "The Thing on the Doorstep", "The Haunter of the Dark" and "The Nameless City". All in French. I've never seen the Spanish or English-language versions.
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.34.81
Posted on Monday, August 13, 2012 - 08:39 pm:   

The Dunwich Horror was translated for an issue of Heavy Metal. Not sure about any of the other Lovecraft adaps he did. Not much of his work appears to be available in English unfortunately.
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.244.38
Posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 - 08:04 pm:   

Not Lovecraftian, but some brilliant weird artwork I've come across thanks to Tim Jeffreys:

http://alexanderjansson.deviantart.com/gallery/
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.61.240
Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 02:32 pm:   

Here's another...he lists Lovecraft as an influence and creates some really surreal hellscapes:

http://xeeming.deviantart.com/gallery/

Here's Innsmouth:

http://xeeming.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d47qptc
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.16.240.222
Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2013 - 02:46 pm:   

Just discovered and going through the work of a Russian artist, Yaroslav Gerzhedovich. I was first really impressed by his foggy cityscapes but he's done some really beautiful, eerie horror and fantasy work too.

This one's called The Doppelganger

dopel

Sadly his only web presence seems to be Flickr, which I find a total chore to navigate.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39386717@N07/
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.16.240.222
Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2013 - 02:48 pm:   

You'll have to copy and paste that link I'm afraid, it's not working correctly.
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.55.247
Posted on Friday, April 05, 2013 - 08:46 pm:   

http://damianparlicki.deviantart.com/

Damian Parlicki - strange, nightmarish, spidery cross-hatched occult architecture is the only way I can think of describing his work.
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.75.47
Posted on Friday, July 19, 2013 - 07:16 pm:   

"And if the roses in your garden sang a weird song, you would go mad."

http://metalonmetalblog.tumblr.com/post/55765155470/godunderdog-jeff-proctor
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.248.120.78
Posted on Thursday, November 07, 2013 - 09:14 pm:   

http://dave-kendall.deviantart.com/art/The-Hands-362223631

"Painting based on Ramsey Campbell's short story, The Hands."

TheHands
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Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker)
Username: Patrick_walker

Registered: 01-2010
Posted From: 62.3.229.59
Posted on Saturday, November 09, 2013 - 08:30 am:   

God, I want that painting. It's my favourite of all Ramsey's short stories and possibly my favourite short story of all time.
It's wonderful.
I want.
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.248.120.78
Posted on Sunday, November 10, 2013 - 07:06 pm:   

Patrick, this is the artist's website: http://www.rustybaby.com/

You could send him a message and see if it's available to buy?
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Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker)
Username: Patrick_walker

Registered: 01-2010
Posted From: 94.118.12.192
Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 12:06 pm:   

Well let's just say I'm now a very happy man.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.13.53.218
Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 12:39 pm:   

Wow! Very impressive!
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.237.187.186
Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 03:44 pm:   

Did you buy it, Patrick?
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 94.9.55.154
Posted on Saturday, December 07, 2013 - 03:53 pm:   

A fun little photo series titled The Bogeyman, by Duane Michals.

http://arpeggia.tumblr.com/post/40493065711
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Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker)
Username: Patrick_walker

Registered: 01-2010
Posted From: 62.3.229.59
Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 02:57 am:   

I thought you might be interested (particularly Ramsey) to see this.
Last year I contacted Dave Kendall regarding the above painting inspired by The Hands hoping to buy the original, but Dave told me, unfortunately, it was with a screenwriter in Los Angeles. He did however generously offer to paint me a new version; not a "copy" of the original but rather a reinterpretation.
Last week I was presented with the new painting. I have to admit to being somewhat sceptical that the artist could reproduce something as disturbing as the original, and I opened the email attachment with a degree of trepidation. But I actually uttered an audible groan of horror when I saw it. It's wonderful. So this is the painting and I feel like a very lucky man to be able to have this hanging on the wall of my cottage.

nun
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Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker)
Username: Patrick_walker

Registered: 01-2010
Posted From: 62.3.229.59
Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 03:03 am:   

Sorry for the large size. Here it is a little smaller, I hope!

nun
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.252.183.3
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 01:52 am:   

That's amazing Patrick! It's also good to know there's at least one screenwriter in LA who has good taste in horror :-)
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.26.90.222
Posted on Monday, June 02, 2014 - 02:03 am:   

I just found out the artist responsible for Patrick's painting, Dave Kendall, worked on a comic with Mike Carey which is available free online:

http://madefirestudios.deviantart.com/art/Houses-of-the-Holy-Episode-1-362909354

Three monsters stalk 1930s Berlin.

Reinhart Fohl is a senior clerk in Goebbels’ propaganda ministry, who’s recently made a dizzying discovery: the party gives its loyal servants so much support and so much latitude that he’s functionally omnipotent.

Basilisks--reptilian in infancy, close to human in adulthood--turn to stone in their dotage. ‘Welcome’, a basilisk in its final sessile stage, has become an old patrician house, complete with portico and gables.

Immortal vampire child Magda Bescu has to live--and to feed--otherwise the tumor in her brain, which is every bit as immortal as she is, will eat more and more of the healthy tissue and leave a bigger hole in her sanity and her memories. And in this place and this time, Magda has one other pressing problem: racially, she belongs to the Roma, the gypsy peoples. The eugenics laws of inter-war Germany have effectively declared open season on anyone of her race.

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