imagination from the husband-and-wife team of Boris Vallejo, America's premier fantasy artist, and Julie Bell, designer of the popular Dragons of Destiny sculpture series. Here are thirteen all-new paintings set in a dazzling alternate world inhabited by lithe goddesses, sensual maidens, and fierce warrior women rendered in meticulous anatomical detail. Fighting sinister serpents, soaring through the air astride magical steeds, or reigning from a throne of tangled boughs, their luxurious hair flows, muscles ripple, and eyes shine with valor and intensity. Weaving the paintings together is an enthralling original narrative by C. J. Henderson, author of the Teddy London series.
...Flicking through my all time favourite non-fiction book, Mirage by BorisVallejo, and considering how I might write a review of it, started me thinking, pondering the meaning of art.
To me, art is anything that stirs the senses and fires the emotions. It can be so many different things to different people. We see art in a Caravaggio oil, a Monet landscape or a Degas ballet girl, in an Andy Warhol poster or in the line of a building, the tactile beauty of a sculpture, even a pile of bricks or a toilet can be art to some people.
BorisVallejo began his career as a book illustrator for works by authors such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice Chetwynd Lee and Frederick Pohl. He came to erotic fantasy art in the late 70s and early 80s. He is still working today, in collaboration with a young woman artist called Julie Bell (their website www...
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Advantages: A splendid thriller, and the most innovative take on vampires thatyou'll read... Disadvantages: Clumsy, unsubtle prose...
...If you've been in a bookstore's horror section in the past fourteen or so years, at least in Britain, then you've almost certainly seen 'Necroscope' sitting on the shelves there, George Underwood's strikingly grotesque cover leaping out at you. 'Necroscope' is the book that spawned… well, lots more books, basically. A slew of sequels with more longevity than most movie franchises. So is it that good?
Harry Keogh is the necroscope in question, a communicator with the dead, a man who offers those dead someone to talk to, to pass the years with. Harry has no choice. The dead are chatty, and he's the only one who can listen. Russia too has her speaker to the dead, a necromancer who violates corpses and literally tears their secrets from them. Boris Dragosani is his name, and he works for an ultra-secret paranormal agency behind...
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