Hinnom Magazine Issue 003 Cover Design
This is the front/back cover design for Issue #003 of Hinnom Magazine, a horror fiction magazine which was published by Gehenna & Hinnom Books, edited by C.P. Dunphey, and released in October 2017, in time for Halloween. To commemorate the holiday, we elected to assemble a variety of abominations from various classic horror tales by different authors. They are represented by costumes worn by occultists who are assembled in a field to summon down Azathoth into the simulacrum of a wicker man. Thanks for looking!
For this cover, we set out to assemble a variety of abominations from various classic horror tales by different authors. Some may be more/less recognizable than others...
I began with Azathoth, an all-powerful elder God from the Cthulhu mythos, who makes up the central figure of the pic in the background.
From there, we can see a representation of another Lovecraftian icon - Cthulhu - his mask being worn by an occultist who holds the dreaded Necronomicon.
From left to right... Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla", "The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood, the familiar from M.R. James' "Count Magnus", and Hastur from "The King in Yellow".
From left to right... Poe's "The Mask of the Red Death" & "The Raven", Machen's "The Great God Pan", and Lovecraft's "Nyarlathotep".
This is the composition after adding highlights, additional effects, runes, and textures.
After that, we throw on the necessary title & credits...
...and finally add a back cover and spine for the printer.