Brazilian graphic designer and illustrator Butcher Billy got the idea of turning famous love songs into book covers of horror master Stephen King. Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart," The Smiths, "Head Over Heels" by Tears For Fears, and many other famous songs were portrayed in a very unusual way.

"This series imagines an alternate universe where some of the most desperate and tragic romantic songs in the '70s and '80s are actually horror books written by Stephen King. The concept is to look at the dark side of love by the vision of pop culture, bringing aspects of its classic stories to play the true meaning of the songs - this can be completely subverted or stressed strangeness while paying tribute to the vintage book cover designs of the original horror stories," Butcher writes on his Behance.

Now scroll down below and check the cool drawings for yourself!

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Brazilian Illustrator Turns Songs Into Books By Stephen King

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Lucka Pavlová
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've always said this song is really creepy, it doesn't need a creepy book cover! D:

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Mr. Bojangles
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Louis Vuitton purse eh? Brings new meaning to "it'll cost an arm and a leg"

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Mr. Bojangles
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

wow ... mind blown ... it never occurred to me that Pink Floyd sang love songs! Now I'll have to listen to all their old records with a new understanding of what they were singing about (Comfortably Numb, Brain Damage, Run Like Hell ... it's all becoming clear now)

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Taryn Wallace
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was used as a theme song in a play called Dance of the Vampires with the one and only Michael Crawford they totally could've done that

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Lara B.
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh I really love this song :) But the cover sure is creepy :D

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Pretty Pangolin
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did Roy Orbison ever do this song? I was thinking just the other day how he would have totally slayed it.

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Luck Yeah
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shouldn't that be Mick Jagger's disembodied lips?

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Jilltdcatlady
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seriously, I can see this as being a novella. Say it starts out with happy couples in a small town and goes Beauty and the Beast in reverse. I want royalties if this happens!

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Thundercuss
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is already a Stephen King book. The Ramones song was part of the movie soundtrack.

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Rundes Nettes
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Misplaced apostrophe. That should be "Why d'you..." "Why do you", not "Why did you".

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boredpandana
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This might be the best article on here. Keep it up dude this is f****ing sick

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