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1996

ROOTS

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© 1996

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Roots
Sepultura

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doll

CTHULHU FHTAGN

guillermoszombie

A woman wearing a red satin dress leans back against a skeleton cloaked in black with violet trim on the hood. Her long blonde hair sweeps back with motion as her right arm is extended to its bony grasp. Its other arm wraps around her as it leads her in the Danse Macabre. Her eyes are closed as Death looks down upon her in a fixed stare. A crescent moon hangs almost obscured by a dark cloudy sky. In silhouette, ravens glide effortlessly in the night.

I TRAVEL BY NIGHT INTERIOR ART

DESTROYING ANGEL CONCEPT

erebus

snowfall

A man with spiky bleach blonde hair carrying himself with a punk aesthetic pushes his finger through the socket of one eye crowding the other socket with two brown eyes squished together, no longer perfectly round, and the tip of his finger. His face is contorted in the gruesome display. Leaning into it, his neck is off-center in the slick leather jacket he wears.

narrowway

A ghastly pale woman with raven hair and blood red lips reclines lazily on the stone stoop at the entrance to a cottage. Behind her a hag proffers a perfect red apple. The stones wall is weathered and mossy green. The roof is an arch of overgrown branches. Weight resting on one hip, the woman props herself up with arm extended. Embroidered with red flowers, the square neckline of her simple white dress plunges deeply, exposing the hint of her areolae. As she rests back with legs atangle, her big toe teases the eye socket of a skull set in the lush green vegetation on the ground.

maw

Streaking down out of a stormy blue sky, a pale skinned hero straddles a motorcycle spewing light from its tailpipes and spinning flame from its wheels. The biker clenches white light in a fist drawn back to strike the bat-like demon that he's bearing down on. The demon perches on the needle of the Chrysler building, holding a female angel bound and captive. Below, saturated fiery orange, the nightmare landscape of the city in ruins in consumed in smoke.

In a rundown alley between brick buildings, a figure wrapped from head to toe in a white sheet confronts the viewer. Beneath, the contour of the face seems skeletal. The sheet is bound tightly with twine, but one hand is slightly extended, struggling to reach out. Although fleshy and human, the hand reaching out has long untrimmed nails. It's not clear from the splayed fingers whether it reaches out in desperation or threat.

visionsofcassandra

itravelbynight

nightmareinred

roots

cacophony

A horrific figure wrapped in crimson stands against a blood red wash. Its jaw spreads wide to expose pronounced fangs, and its long, limp tongue hangs off the side of its mouth. Red eyes burn from its desiccated skull. In one hand it holds a long staff topped with a skull. In the other palms rests an eyeball looking outward from the cage of its clawed fingers.

arise

key

twoworlds

boogeyman

lovecraftsnightmarea

lovecraftsnightmareb

BONES

trickortreat

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