MONSTERS, MADMEN AND THINGS THAT SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN THE MORGUE

Good horror artwork is rarely cheap.

Cheap horror artwork is rarely good.

Brad McDevitt Stock Art – Horror Collection 8 provides a substantial selection of professional horror illustrations at a price intended to remain practical for independent publishers, game designers, writers and anyone else trying to make something suitably unpleasant without sacrificing the food budget.

This collection contains 25 horror-themed TIFF illustrations by veteran artist Brad McDevitt, ready for use in personal and professional projects under the terms of the included licence.

The artwork combines Brad’s distinctive black-and-white linework with selected colour pieces, offering monsters, victims, killers, supernatural creatures and sinister scenes suitable for role-playing games, adventures, fiction, ’zines and other horror projects.

INSIDE THE COLLECTION

The artwork includes:

• A deformed vampire

• An evil businessman

• A ghost girl

• A grinning ghoul

• Horror graffiti

• Living slime

• A deranged madman

• Colour and greyscale variants of selected pieces

• Mutant children

• The flying, entrail-dragging Penanggalan

• A semi-nude vampire

• A sinister pinstriper

• A sunburnt vampire

• A techno-demon

• A tentacular horror

• A morgue scene

• A threatened investigator

• A vampire thug

• A group of vampires

• A werecrocodile

• A werewolf

• A sinister surgeon

• A mutant catman

• Further scenes of supernatural and human horror

The selection ranges from traditional creatures of the night to modern horrors, medical grotesques, urban nightmares and mutations that do not fit neatly into any respectable taxonomy.

There are images suitable for monsters, antagonists, encounters, chapter headings, scenario illustrations and all those occasions when a blank patch of page would look considerably better occupied by a slavering abomination.

ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS

Commissioning original artwork remains the ideal, but it is not always possible—particularly when producing smaller supplements, short adventures or independent projects on narrow margins.

Stock art helps fill that gap.

A strong illustration can establish atmosphere, break up a dense page, give a monster a memorable identity or provide the visual spark around which an entire encounter can be built.

This collection is useful for:

• Tabletop role-playing games

• Horror adventures and campaign supplements

• Bestiaries and monster collections

• Independent gaming magazines and ’zines

• Horror fiction

• Digital publications

• Character and creature profiles

• Handouts and scenario material

• Personal gaming projects

• Professional publications covered by the supplied licence

Use a single illustration to complete an existing layout or draw upon the whole collection to establish a consistent visual character across a larger project.

HORROR WITH CHARACTER

Brad McDevitt’s artwork has appeared throughout the tabletop role-playing industry, illustrating everything from traditional fantasy monsters to grotesque modern horror.

His work has the immediacy of classic gaming illustration: bold lines, expressive faces, heavy shadows and creatures that look as though they belong in an actual horror game rather than a corporate presentation about one.

These are images with personality.

The vampires are not interchangeable fashion models with slightly longer teeth. The monsters are ugly, strange and frequently unpleasant. The human figures look frightened, deranged, threatening or some combination of all three.

They are illustrations intended to provoke ideas.

The morgue might inspire an investigation.

The threatened detective might become the opening scene of a scenario.

The mutant children may suggest an entire hidden community.

The techno-demon could drag a contemporary horror campaign into cyberpunk or science fiction.

The art does not merely fill space. It provides something for writers and Games Masters to react to.

A PRACTICAL COLLECTION AT A PRACTICAL PRICE

This collection contains 25 separate pieces of horror artwork, supplied digitally as TIFF files.

Some individual pieces may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit more than one genre. This allows each themed collection to remain useful in its own right without requiring customers to purchase several unrelated packs merely to obtain the images appropriate to their project.

All artwork is supplied for use under the terms of the attached licence. Read the licence before publication to ensure that your intended use and required attribution comply with its conditions.

You can find more fantasy, horror, historical, modern, science-fiction and urban-fantasy artwork in the Brad McDevitt Stock Art collection.

Your manuscript is written.

Your layout has several accusingly empty spaces.

Something horrible is waiting to crawl into them.