About us

Illustrator and artist originally from Dublin, Ireland, now based just outside London. He like Sloths, toasts and drawing.Past work has included editorial pieces, posters, book covers and character design. He try to balance commercial work with some personal projects, be it sloth-themed board games or ghost stories.
He is autor Behind You comic series, one-shot horror stories.

Technique:
pencil, pen, coloured digitally

Projects for DARK BOOKS:
A Sign of the Times (cover, inner illustrations)

One of the most important guys in DARK BOOKS.
Originally a textile print designer, he has been working in an advertising agency as a graphic designer and designer since 2001. In recent years, he has been intensively involved in creating covers and illustrations for books of various genres, from horror and fantasy to children's literature. He collaborates with a number of Czech and Slovak publishing houses. You can see his work, for example, in the horror anthology České temno (2021), V Královských zahradách (2024) or the latest Czech edition of Tommyknockers (2024) and Salem´s Lot (2025) by Stephen King. He is also the author of the covers of several audiobooks and music CDs and participated in the graphic design of two Czech fantasy games. He is behind the complete look and interior illustrations of the book The Road to the Dark Tower by Bev Vincent.

Technique:
Digital paintings using graphic drawing tablet

Projects for DARK BOOKS:
The Road to the Dark Tower (dustjacket, boards, inner illustrations, slipcase)
Carrie´s Legacy: Revisiting Stephen King´s Girl with a Frightening Power (dustjacket, boards, inner illustrations, slipcase)

Czech comic book artist, illustrator, painter, cartoonist, screenwriter and movie nerd from Prague. He has been influenced by horror since his childhood and, as he himself says, Alien and Dracula are to blame. That is why he found a liking for horror and sci-fi and best of all a combination of both, which is based on his very favorite film The Thing by John Carpenter. He has always been drawn to comics. He was fascinated by the graphic expression of a story and storytelling through images. The turning point came when he discovered the comics of Kája Saudek and subsequently the popularity of the Sin City comic book series by Frank Miller. Murin wanted to be a film director, as he is very influenced by Quentin Tarantino, but his demanding nature and impatience with people anchored him to the comic book palette (of colors). He has many original comic works: Fotograf (2015), Nym-Fa (2017), Škodík (2017), Rybář (2019), The Phone (2024) and Miriti - AssasSin Vampire Cat, where he expresses his social stance and criticism of certain issues that are still taboo. He also has an abroad success, specifically for the metal band Beastö Blancö, where Alice Cooper's daughter sings, and these were T-shirt covers. He then did the same for the Californian horror-themed store "Zombie Torrez Playthings". A major turning point in his career came when he started working with Beta publishing house and began creating covers for Stephen King's books: Under the Dome, Night Shift (cover + 20 illustrations inside) and The Shining. He also contributed to the anthology V Královských zahradách, for which he created a comic prologue and epilogue, paying homage to the legendary Creepshow. He is currently working on many other projects.

Technique:

Regular drawing: indian ink and aniline or brilliant watercolours

Black&white drawing: combination of indian ink and centropen

Colour drawing: sometimes combination of painting using professional Japanese aquarelle

Painting: professional Japanese or classic aquarelle colours onto aquarelle cardboard

Black&white illustration: made with centropen

Projects for DARK BOOKS:

Carrie´s Legacy: Revisiting Stephen King´s Girl with a Frightening Power (inner illustration)

South Bohemian painter and illustrator. In his free work we often find motifs from the works of H.P. Lovecraft and his followers. In book illustrations he also remains faithful to the darker genre, although he would like to expand his field of activity beyond its borders in the future.
He currently lives in Vodňany and when he is not creating, he wanders around the surrounding countryside with headphones on, thinking about what else he would like to paint.

Technique:
Painting: acrylic
Drawing: pencil, coloured digitally

Projects for DARK BOOKS:
Carrie´s Legacy: Revisiting Stephen King´s Girl with a Frightening Power (inner illustration)

An illustrator of Sci-Fi and fantasy, who has illustrated the works of fiction of famous writers such as Iriving, Gardner, Bloch, King and others. His illustrations have been published in magazines such as Ikarie, Playboy, Penthouse or Level. He created illustrations for publishing houses such as Laser, Perseus, Beta-Dobrovský, AF 167, Talpress, Betexa, Nava, Albatros, XYZ and others. Bauer has created many album covers for Kabát, Hagen Baden, A. Brichta, Votchi and videos for Krátký film Praha. He has greatly contributed to the Anglo-Czech Spanish co-production of the film Nexus.

Technique:
Airbrush technique (American retouching) in combination with paiting.

Projects for DARK BOOKS:
Carrie´s Legacy: Revisiting Stephen King´s Girl with a Frightening Power (inner illustration)