Monster Show On Flickr
Domy Books hosted an art show of Monsters last weekend. Check out all the monster artwork that showed up, including some of mine.

Jonathan Hunt Beastiary






















Here's a selection of creatures taken from Hunt's "Illuminated Alphabet of Medieval Beasts". The "Ziphius, or water - owl" is especially strange.

Johfra
The Visionary Revue has several great articles detailing the life of Johfra.

Jim Leon





















Click the magnifying glass pics here to see the artwork. This page has more of the odd characters as shown above. And check out the weird drawings on this page.
2nd Gallery

James Cawthorn
Fantasy artist James Cawthorn illustrated what is considered the first graphic novel from the UK, "The Jewel In The Skull". He also illustrated Michael Moorcock's "Stormbringer" and "The Crystal and the Amulet".

You can find additional artwork by Cawthorn here.

Vincent Cartwright Vickers - The Google Book

"FAR! FAR away, the Google lives, in a land which only children can go to. It is a wonderful land of funny flowers, and birds, and hills of pure white heather.

The Google has a beautiful garden which is guarded night and day. All through the day he sleeps in a pool of water in the center of the garden; but when the night comes, he slowly crawls out of the pool and silently prowls around for food.

All the birds try to avoid the Google, because they don't like him and he frightens them; but some of them he can never catch, especially those with the red beaks. You can never see these birds anywhere except in Google land which is far far away, and only children can go there; and even they must be nearly – but not quite – asleep."

Rory Hayes



Rory was an underground comic artist who contributed to books such as Arcade, Bijou Funnies, Insect Fear, Snatch, Cunt Comics, Hydrogen Bomb and Skull.

"Fascinated by horror since an early age, he published his own comic 'Bogeyman' in 1968. An avid experimenter with drugs, Rory Hayes died in his sleep from an overdose on August 29, 1983, only 34 years old." quote taken from here.

Click the following numbers to see some of Rory's artwork.
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Click the following numbers to read "The Creatures In The Tunnel"
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

Panels From "The Thing In The Room!"
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Panels From "The Transformation Of Dr Cline"
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Lorzi "Season Of The Witch"
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Page From "Last Hit"

A Dark Night Comic Strip

If you enjoy the work of Rory Hayes you might be interested in checking out Dan Nadel's amazing collection of unknown comics visionaries "Art Out Of Time". It includes several short comics by Hayes. And I have it on good word from Dan that a collection exclusively devoted to Rory's comics is in the works!

Stephen Gammell






















Here is a selection of illustrations depicting the odd tales from the book "Scary Stories". I've scanned and uploaded these images myself. I've been a great fan of these paintings since childhood. The expressive watercolor paintings, ink blots pooled into monster faces and mutated limbs, it all provokes a unique nightmare world unlike anything else.

You can purchase the books illustrated by Gammell here.

Read more about Stephen Gammell here.

Japanese Ghosts and Demons
Scroll of the Hungry Ghosts
2nd Gallery
Legends, Warriors, Ghosts
4th Gallery
Yokai
Image from Exorcist Scroll
If you keep clicking the pics on this gallery you'll find very large sized pictures from the Hell Scroll.
Article about Ghosts, Demons and Spirits in Japanese Lore.
Various images of Oni
Ghosts of Japan

Watch the trailer to this film titled "Japanese Hell".

Check out the descriptions of the 16 levels of this Chinese version of hell.

An artist friend of mine Adam Buttrick brought this site to my attention with many strange ink drawings of Japanese beasts.