Samhain draws nigh. Just in time for the occasion, I found a darksome tale within the Book of Faces. Jim FitzPatrick, Ireland’s greatest living artist, posted today on his FB account an uncanny experience from over sixty years ago.

Bernie Wrightson—possibly the greatest horror artist of all time—was born on this date in 1948. In honor of that occasion, let’s take a look at a gallery of some of his best work.

N.C. Wyeth wasn’t just one of the greatest and most influential artists of the twentieth century. He also did something very cool for one of his fans in the February of 1931.

1976 was a pivotal year in the history of hard rock/metal and Thin Lizzy was a big part of that. Jim FitzPatrick has said of his cover art for Lizzy’s Johnny the Fox: ”From an artist’s perspective, I consider this my best Thin Lizzy album cover.”

The acclaimed Spanish artist, Manuel Pérez Clemente—known to the world as Sanjulián—died yesterday at the venerable age of eighty-five. From the start of his career, horror and dark fantasy was an integral part of his body of work. His covers for magazines like Creepy and Eerie are considered classics and he continued to create paintings with darksome themes almost until his final day.

The Battle of Hastings was, to borrow a phrase from Churchill, a “hinge of fate”. On October 14, 1066, the destiny of Europe—and by extension, the entire world—turned on the outcome of one battle on an island of middling size off the coast of the Eurasian landmass.