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April 4, 2025

Buried in the Woods

When I was 16 and living in white trash Northern Florida, I had a best friend named Kevin who lived in a trailer with his single mom. it was buried in the woods, on her uncle’s 10 feet of property. We’d watch horror movies there, climb on the roof to smoke cigarettes, and raid the fridge for her beer.

I always imagined, what if the woods hosted extra-dimensional, Lovecraftian creatures?

With that in mind, I illustrated this for “Dr.Seuss is Dead” in my collection of short stories “Down Highways in the Dark..by Demons Driven’.

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The dangers of isolated woods come to life!

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Published on April 04, 2025 10:16

April 3, 2025

Government conspiracies! UFOs! The fall of the US!

Government conspiracies! UFOs! The fall of the US! I read Watchmen in 1986 (on my 45-minute bus ride to school) and decided I wanted to be a comic artist. I always wanted to be an artist or writer, and this convinced me I could do both.This illustration was part of the graphic novel proposal I made to DC Comics in 1998.They only wanted superhero at the time (they were about to go bankrupt), not a complex, cosmic horror tale that spanned 10+ issues!It was a blessing and a curse. I was super disappointed at the time, but now my rights and am 3 novels and 2 anthologies into my heavily illustrated cosmic horror series,join my email list if you want to get notified when I release new work!Alien Conspiracies!

The first drawing for my heavily illustrated novel The Black Seas of Infinity.

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Published on April 03, 2025 10:44

March 28, 2025

Illustrations for Tommy Clark’s contribution “DEDWADOÑT” and my story “Washington, DC.”

I finished the illustrations for Tommy Clark’s contribution “DEDWADOÑT” and my story “Washington, DC.” Both will be in my new anthology, The Joke Is on Mankind, which will be out early this summer.
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Check out more of Thomas Clark’s work on his website

DEDWADOÑT and Washington, DC.

Sirens!ancient goddesses! Creepy crawly creatures from anothere world!

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Published on March 28, 2025 11:14

March 19, 2025

The always-entertaining Spicy Dicey

The always-entertaining Spicy Dicey talks with me on the Skull Session podcast about her love of vampires and her controversial books, which have (at least temporarily) banned her on Facebook!
See more and get a signed copy on her website

See her at Texas Authorcon July in Dallas,

Killercon in August in Austin, or The Deadman’s Hand in Albany in October.

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Bonded Soul by Dicey Grenor

The always enteraining Dicey Grenor talks with me about vampires, and how Amazon temporarily banned her!

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Published on March 19, 2025 23:44

March 15, 2025

Finally! The brand new book trailer for The Never Dead

Finally! The brand new book trailer for The Never Dead, was created by the talented Alan Liptak!

View the video here

View his work here

And pick up your copy here

Or contact me and get a signed copy of the paperback or hardcover here

Book Trailer for The Never Dead

16 terrifying Twilight Zone style stories

 

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Published on March 15, 2025 00:53

March 13, 2025

The third set of illustrations for my new anthology

The third set of illustrations for my new anthology “The Joke is on Mankind”.

A whole slew of talented authors are in this cosmic/horror-themed book, Jeff Strand, Robert Essig, Christine Morgan, Lucas Magnum, Terry Campbell, Cody Goodfellow, Nat Robinson, Dicey Grenor , Thomas Clark, Ryan C. Thomas, Patrick Lacey, and Dan Henk.

Two more story illustrations for the anthology The Joke is on Mankind

The illustrations for Cogy Goodfellow and Lucas Magnum’s tales in the anthology The Joke is on Mankind

All updates will be on my website and I should have copies available for purchase at The Texas Authorcon  in Dallas in July and Killercon in Austin in August.

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Published on March 13, 2025 21:46

March 11, 2025

Graverobbers! Monsters in the Multiverse!

Graverobbers! Monsters in the Multiverse! Two more illustrations for my new anthology The Joke is on Mankind, which should be out this May. These are from the Terry Campbell story “Pictures of My Former Self” and the Christine Morgan story “Lullabye of the Spheres”.
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Graverobbers and interdimensional monsters!

Illustratrions for the Christine morgan and Terry Campbell stories in the new anthology The Joke is on Mankind.

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Published on March 11, 2025 09:37

March 9, 2025

The first two illustrations for my new anthology

Here are the first two illustrations for my new anthology The joke is on mankind. These are for the Merrill David story “About that Buzz”, you can see more on his website here  
And Dicey Grenor’s story “Goddess of the Apocalypse”. You can visit her on her website here
The book should be out in May, keep up with its release by signing onto my email list here

Illustrations for Godess of the Apocalypse and About That Buzz

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Published on March 09, 2025 22:50

March 5, 2025

Bringing light to the indie horror world

Bringing light to the indie horror world, here is a scroll of the illustrations I did for my anthology The Never Dead.
YouTube

you can order it on Amazon

or hit me up for signed copies

I have a new anthology, with a whole crew of talented authors, debuting this year! I’ll keep everyone posted!

16 tales by 14 authors. My twilight zone anthology is free for the next 3 days.

The Never Dead

16 twisted tales in the vein of The Twilight Zone, Tales From The Crypt, and other weird and wonderful shows!

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Published on March 05, 2025 09:12

March 1, 2025

Government conspiracies! Roswell! The fall of society!

Government conspiracies! Roswell! The fall of society!
https://youtu.be/6nSCeBhHkU0
This is a rolling trailer featuring large illustrations in comic book style for my well-received cosmic horror novel, “The Black Seas of Infinity.”
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A rolling video of all the illustrations in The Black Seas of Infinity All the illustrations for Dan Henk's novel The Black Seas of Infinity

A rolling videoof all the illustrations in The Black Seas of Infinity

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Published on March 01, 2025 10:16