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Pennywise

"They ALL float down here. When your down here with us, you'll float too! "

Pennywise as portrayed by Tim Curry in 1990's "It."

A couple of interesting pieces of trivia:
According to the commentary on the DVD, Tim Curry's Pennywise was so unnerving that the cast and crew completely avoided him while on the set.

Richie's worst fear is a werewolf in this movie. Seth Green, who plays young Richie, would go on to play a werewolf in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Radio Times magazine in 2004 held a survey for the scariest programme aired on television, in which It came first. The X-Files came second. Others on the top ten list included Twin Peaks, Ghostwatch and Tales of the Unexpected. The Sci Fi channel annouced a 4 hour remake of the film which will appear in the year 2007 or 2008.

As always, you can order this, or any of my limited edition signed prints for $25.00 buy visiting the store or by simply clicking the button below.

Buy 1 Get 1 Free Sale Extended!

Hey all,
I've had a lot of requests to extend the sale, so I'm gonna keep it running until the 17th.

Thanks to everyone who has ordered!

R

Buy 1 Get 1 Free Sale!

For a very limited time all prints will be on sale, buy one get one free!

When you place your order just enter in the comments section which print you would like to receive for free.

Remember this is for a limited time only, so act fast and spread the word!

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Happy Birthday Boris!

Today is Boris Karloff's 117th birthday, sadly, due to illness I haven't had the time to do a new portrait for the occasion, which is a shame, because his is my favorite face to draw... But I hope you'll enjoy a second look at the various portraits I have done of Mr. Karloff.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)

I have quite fond memories of my family gathered in the living room listening awe struck to my father as he read various poems and short stories out loud to us. His magical voice would turn the written word into something that even my young mind could comprehend, I may not have fully understood what the narrator of "The Raven" was talking about, but I understood that he was slowly slipping into madness.

My father would read a Robert Burns (my namesake) piece, or Kipling's "Gunga Din", and when he finished I would always beg him to read "The Tell Tale Heart," my first favorite short story.

Years later, my good friend Phill and I tried our hand at some spoken word performances, we took my father's video camera and headed off to the coolest cemetery we could find. I picked my favorite Poe poem "Annabel Lee" to perform, thank God that footage no longer exists. I must have tripped up on the word "sepulchre" about a thousand times.

Later in life as an adult, while visiting a friend in Richmond, VA. I took a walk by myself for a pack of smokes, and stumbled upon the house Poe lived in during his stay in Richmond, it was quite a nice surprise.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this weeks portrait! As always, you can order this, or any of my limited edition signed prints for $25.00 buy visiting the store or by simply clicking the button below.

For more Poe, be sure to visit the work of Edgar Allan Poe online here.

And check out this animated short film from 1953. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell tale Heart." Narrated by James Mason, this UPA Production was the first cartoon to be X-rated (adults only) in Great Britain under the British Board of Film Censors classification system, although watching it today its hard to imagine.

Sir Graves Ghastly

Anyone who grew up here in "El Mitten de los muertos" will remember Sir Graves Ghastly as portrayed by Lawson Deming on Detroit TV from the late 60's to the early 80's.

Here once again is Sir Graves Ghastly, my favorite Horror Host of all time.

Sir Graves and Adam West's "Batman" are my earliest tv related memories, I spent many, many, many saturdays curled up in front of the tv watching Sir Graves present everything from "The Bride of Frankenstein" to "Robot Monster." Its not an exaggeration to say that I wouldn't be what I am today if it wasn't for the Sir Graves Show.

I did a portrait last year of Sir Graves that I was never quite happy with, I'm much more satisfied with this one.

I hope you enjoy it!

R

And be sure to check out Keith Milford's wonderful site Sir Graves Ghastly.com. Keith has assembeled a virtual time machiene of Sir Graves video, images, and audio... fantastic stuff!

As always, you can order this, or any of my limited edition signed prints for $25.00 buy visiting the store or by simply clicking the button below.

H.P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937)

I first was introduced to H.P. Lovecraft through my life long love of the work of writer Robert E. Howard who was one of Lovecraft's closest friends as well as being a "Weird Tales" contemporary and a contributor to the Cthulhu Mythos.

My interest in Lovecraft was later re-sparked by writer (and fellow seeker of Forbidden Knowledge) Phill Weber who lent me volumes of Lovecraft lore, and to whom this image is dedicated.

For a brief bio of Lovecraft short and tormented life, be sure to visit the Wikipedia entry on H.P. Lovecraft.

For more Lovecraftian goodness:
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society silent film adaptation of "Call of Cthulhu" is available on DVD and is highly recommended.
Be sure to visit the H.P. Lovecraft Archives.
Voices in the Dark has a nice collection of free H.P. Lovecraft audiobooks available for download.

As always, you can order this, or any of my limited edition signed prints for $25.00 buy visiting the store or by simply clicking the button below.

The Shape

The Shape as portrayed by Nick Castle in John Carpenter's 1978 classic "Halloween."

The night HE came home!

John Carpenter's "Halloween" is the film that kick-started my lifelong love of Horror. Sure I was into Monsters at an early age, but Halloween was the first truly horrifying film I had ever seen, where the monster was just a guy in a mask, he could be anyone, and he could be real.

And the idea of Michael Myers still scares the shit out of me to this day. I'm talking the REAL Michael Myers here, not the ancient vessel of some pagan cult, or whatever the Hell Moustapha Akkad turned him into, I'm talking about "The Shape," "The Boogeyman."

When I was a kid, my neighbor's son's fiance was killed by Ted Bundy, and I currently live in a house that is half a mile from where someone was gunned down and murdered in the street, right in front of several witnesses during a gas station robbery, but at night when I'm working and get that creepy feeling that I'm being watched, I always expect to turn and catch a glimpse of HIM disappearing behind a tree, he has been burned into my subconscious.

In my reckless youth, there was a time when a friend and I planned on smoking some "whoopee weed" and watching "Halloween" but after waiting impatiently for the tape to rewind, we hit the play button and caught a glimpse of his face, I remember hitting stop, and just being filled with a real sense of dread and just wanting to watch cartoons instead... Luckily, it was my friend who chickened out and said he didn't really feel like watching "Halloween" after all...

My original relationship with the film was a troubled one. You see, my Mom had no problem letting me go see something like Bo Derek's "Tarzan, the Ape Man" with all the nudity, or letting me buy the tie-in Playboy, because it had "an article" on Tarzan that I really wanted to "read." (I can still remember the envy of my childhood friends.)

Being a child of the sixties, she would rather have me watch two people making love, then two people trying to kill each other..." Which was great for me, that is until John Carpenter's "Halloween" hit.

It must have been when it premiered on HBO because all of a sudden everyone was talking about it, like the entire world had watched this life altering film, everyone that is but me. Even my parents and their friend had watched it, (after sending me to bed early) I can still remember hearing them scream downstairs while watching it. At school everyone was talking about it, and it felt like if you hadn't seen it then you were just a little kid left behind playing with your Star Wars guys, among the prepubescent males at school this was what separated the men from the boys...

Hell, even the lunch lady asked me if I had seen it, and not wanting to be the only lame kid in school, I lied and said I had... I can still hear her voice "They have to make another one, they can't just leave him hanging like that." To which I replied "Umm, yeah, that was a big tree he was hanging in."

Needless to say I was caught...

When I finally couldn't take it anymore, I waited until my parents were fast asleep and I snuck downstairs and caught an extremely late night showing of it on good ole HBO, and it scared the crap out of me like no film has since. I was hooked, I still have the novelization I bought the next day at the local grocery store (I smuggled that into the house and hid it like the other kids did their Playboys! ; )

Later I would get to see the mediocre sequel on a double bill with "The Beast Within" at the drive in with my sister, its only worth mentioning because there was a guy in the audience with a Michael Myers costume and a fake knife who would sneak up on cars and scare the living shit out of people...

Anyway, sorry for this insanely long post!

I hope you all have enjoyed this flood of artwork, I wish I would have had the time to write a little something about each of them meant to me personally...

I hope you all have a fantastic Halloween!

R

If your interested you can order this, or any of my limited edition signed prints for $25.00 buy visiting the store or by simply clicking the button below. Be sure to take advantage of the Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale going on right now! But hurry, this is the very last day to take advantage of the sale!

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone has a great Halloween!

R

Dr. Sam Loomis

Dr. Sam Loomis as portrayed by Donald Pleasence in John Carpenter's 1978 classic "Halloween."

The part of Dr. Sam Loomis was originally offered to Peter Cushing and then to Christopher Lee (Lee would later say it was one of his greatest regrets that he turned down the part) both declined the role due to the low salary, and in my mind it was a blessing in disguise. As much as I love Cushing and Lee, I can't picture anyone other then the great Donald Pleasence as Dr. Loomis.

Named after a character in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" Dr. Sam loomis is the ultimate modern day Van Helsing obsessed with his duty of tracking down the evil he knows will strike again...

An interesting piece of trivia:
Donald Pleasence's daughter had watched Carpenter's "Assault on Precinct 13" and liked it, thus encouraging her father to star in Halloween. Pleasence has said that this was the sole reason he took the part.

As always you can order this and any of my Monster Art prints for a mere $25.00 buy visiting the store or by simply clicking the button below. Be sure to take advantage of the Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale going on right now! But hurry, there are only 2 days left to take advantage of the sale!