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    Bootknife-Jackson: this is probably the best art feature i've seen on this site to date. awesome stuff and well executed #juhaarvidhelminen more »
    Kimrod: Marilyn Manson must be wetting his knickers at the moment... #juhaarvidhelminen more »
    disatess: Just a breath of my nightmares. #juhaarvidhelminen more »
    LittleDragon: I didn't find these creepy, just cool. I was thinking dark Great Britian in WW2 uniforms. I would watch something based on these images. #juhaarvidhel... more »
    vonlicorice: These gave me an intense flashback to an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, the Tale of the Super Specs. The people from another dimension had s... more »
    MrThunderfield: Juha and Arvid are both Finnish male names. On HIS deviantART page it also says that he's male. Well done, io9. The photo's are, however, fantastic. ... more »
    Hamslicer: The pope made the hairs on my neck stand on end. shudder<< #juhaarvidhelminen more »
    FrankenPC: ST: I will never forget that Silent Hill scene where Triangle-head-butcher-guy grabs that woman at the church stairs and rips off her skin. That was ... more »
    botanicidal: My mind is thinking of nazis and the kkk - the uniforms and the pointy hats. Please tell me I'm not the only one. Either way, the effect is creepy and... more »
    J_Frank_Parnell: Shadowpope looks sad. #juhaarvidhelminen more »
    Belabras: Karl Ruprecht Kroenen called. He wants his clothes back. more »
    burlybax: The main pic and number 8 look like Karl Ruprecht Kroenen from Hellboy #juhaarvidhelminen more »
    Jeremy Tapsell: Shit! I was just looking at this on Coilhouse! and now you link it! ^_^ I Love Coilhouse! No offence, I mean, I love io9 as well, its just yo... more »
    Andrew Liptak: Very, very creepy. I like it! #juhaarvidhelminen more »
    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): WOW!! If there was ever concept art for a new and creepy new film. Its right there!! Awesome and incredibly scary. This could be made (very easily) in... more »
  • #horrorart

    Shadow People Haunt the Darkest Corners of Your Dreams

    Juha Arvid Helminen unnerves with his Shadow People, a dreamily creepy series of black-on-black photos that evokes The Invisible Man and Silent Hill's Pyramid Head monsters. His black-wrapped subjects are amassing an army to march through your nightmares. More »
  • #scifiart

    Cthulhu In Love: The Fetish Art Of Richard Kadrey [NSFW]

    We've been huge fans of Richard Kadrey's writing ever since we read his seminal cyberpunk novel Metrophage, and we've been lucky enough to hear him read several times from his stories of the bizarre sex lives of mutant assassins. So we were thrilled when we found out he also creates gorgeous, disturbing fetish art under the name Kaos Beauty Klinik. His breathtaking work — including women with actual tentacles and gorgeous women who are masked and mysterious — reminds us of the freakish beauty of Joel Peter Witkin's art. Click through for a (NSFW) gallery. More »