ABOUT ME :
Five time British Fantasy Award winner as best artist - Clients have included Chaosium Inc., Games Workshop, Palladium Books, Puffin Books, Pan Books, Fedogan & Bremer, and W.Paul Ganley to name a few.
Here's what a few people had to say ...
Ramsey Campbell
Author of a multitude of short stories and horror novels such as ANCIENT IMAGES, THE NAMELESS, SCARED STIFF -
"Dave has managed to portray nightmares which the prose of Lovecraft and his followers only hinted at... "
Brian Lumley
Creator of the NECROSCOPE books, as well as many Lovecraftian tales like THE BURROWERS BENEATH, RETURN OF THE DEEP ONES -
"Dave is an absolute master of black & white illustration...I've been known to call him a 'Master of Tentacular Pustularity', and it's been my pleasure to have him illustrate quite a few of my stories..."
Karl Edward Wagner
Best remembered as the creator of the mystic swordsman KANE, but he was also a writer of many superb and original horror stories -
"...and there are certain persons - artists twisted and corroded by their genius - of whom it may be said : here is one who would rather blow out a candle than curse the light "
Neil Gaiman
Writer of SANDMAN, CORALINE, AMERICAN GODS, GOOD OMENS (with Terry Pratchett) and a whole bunch more.
"Was delighted to see that my old friend Dave Carson has a website - If you've ever wondered what H.P. Lovecraftian things really look like - I mean, really look like - you should go and inspect Dave's art. I bought a picture called THE KISS from him in 1986, which my wife, seventeen years later, will still not allow to be hung anywhere in the house where she might have to see it, so it is only ever hung on walls she never looks at..."
Carl T. Ford
Editor of the highly praised DAGON magazine.
"Having cut his teeth on Lovecraftian themes in the 70s and 80s, his work over the past twenty years has managed to incorporate everything from Goth Vamps to Death Metal. And he shows no sign of slackening. If I were in a Satanic rock band I'd definitely be using him to desecrate my CD covers, and if I was writing a popular horror novel I'd be pressing my publisher to have him darken up my book jacket... "
Stephen Jones
Multiple award-winning editor and writer with more than seventy books to his credit -
"For two decades Dave Carson has been the premier Lovecraftian illustrator. Nobody does eldtritch, ichor and ichthyoid like Dave. His artwork opens a gateway to the darkest corners of our imagination and shows us horrors which our minds would rather remain hidden."
Robert Rankin
Author of the crazed THEY CAME AND ATE US, THE SPROUTS OF WRATH, ARMAGEDDON-THE MUSICAL , etc. -
" ...I never lost touch with his work, I was amazed by it all those years ago and I remain equally amazed today. And I'd keep seeing it, in books and magazines and even being bootlegged on the occasional T shirt..."
Fritz Leiber
One of the all time greats in the field of fantasy and horror writing -
"It's surely a most handsome artwork by Dave Carson - perhaps a scion of Great Cthulhu... "
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