BOOGEYMAN
Cover illustration for The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIV
I love doing covers for anthologies, and I especially enjoy doing covers for horror anthologies. This piece was commissioned for one of DAW Books' annual collections of The Year's Best Horror Stories.
This painting was pure fun. I had always wanted to do a boogeyman, and had submitted the idea to DAW Books years earlier for a previous cover. It wasn't chosen, but I kept the sketch and resubmitted it with other concepts every year after that, until it was finally chosen for this anthology.
Someday I'll paint the boogeyman I imagined when I was young, which I still remember. As funny as it sounds, he was shaped like a big turkey drumstick!
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I love that the Boogeyman is squished somewhat uncomfortably in the closet.
this would be a pure nightmare fuel if I was a kid