Book Cover Illustrations

In my childhood, Halloween was a more innocent time. Since then, one can feel the evil influences and while these have certainly done much to energize parts of the entertainment industry and put a few entertainment thrills and chills into readers and audiences, it is not without a downside. I often would like a little […]

Vampires have terrified audiences since ancient story tellers conjured them up hundreds of years ago. Bram Stoker codified today’s notion of what a vampire should be with his novel Dracula. One odd twist to the story is that vampire bats were discovered AFTER Stoker had made his character a bat that drank blood. Yes, sometimes […]

One of the things that terrifies almost anyone sometime during their life is the fear of death. And often that fear is inherent in Halloween, a holiday based on various cultures’ beliefs that the dead might walk among us during certain times of the year. So here are a few of my illustrations dealing with […]

Day four of my exploration of horror and Halloweenish artwork that I’ve created for magazine and book illustrations as well as artwork that as yet remains unsold. Today’s artwork will take a look at those terrifying skulls and bones that we associate with death — and which are within us all, just below the skin. […]

This was one of the illustrations created for my illustrated version of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death” — which you can read online or download for free at: Masque of the Red Death Here are a few more pictures from this edition of the horror classic:

The countdown to Halloween continues with more of the artwork and illustrations I’ve created over the years for various publishers — and for my own enjoyment. ====================== Illustrator Duncan Long has created a variety of genre artwork for self-publishing authors and large presses. You can find more of his horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and […]

Halloween was always a fun holiday for me when I was a kid, back before that terrifying realization of adulthood: that the world really was full of monsters (albeit of a different kind than in the monster movies and fairy tales). With those kinder and gentler times in mind, I decided to start a display […]

Stuart Jaffe’s new mystery Southern Bound is now available from Amazon.com. Some of the reviews: “Southern Bound gets it right! A great blend of ghosts and gumshoes. If you like haunting mysteries you’ll love Southern Bound!” – Edgar-nominated author, Joel Goldman “… fun and interesting. Not only was I entertained I learned a few things […]

Our graphic novel Werewolves of New Idria is now available from any number of comic book stores as well as from Amazon.com It has 152 pages with 80 double-page illustrations in a “widescreen” format. Here’s the story blurb for our comic book: “A new breed of werewolf! Holy warriors, led by a 900-year-old knight who […]

When I stared creating the illustrations for the graphic novel The Werewolves of New Idria, we knew the final page count and approximately how many illustrations I’d need to create for John Chadwell’s story. That said, there’s always a little “wheel spinning” with an art project like this, so a few pieces were created that […]