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Brazilian Illustrator Reimagines Famous Love Songs As Creepy Book Covers By Stephen King
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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I've always said this song is really creepy, it doesn't need a creepy book cover! D:
Louis Vuitton purse eh? Brings new meaning to "it'll cost an arm and a leg"
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)
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
Did Roy Orbison ever do this song? I was thinking just the other day how he would have totally slayed it.
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!
This is already a Stephen King book. The Ramones song was part of the movie soundtrack.
This might be the best article on here. Keep it up dude this is f****ing sick
With the book pictures all these titles now sound like episodes of Tales from the Crypt
These are soo good! I kinda wish they were real soo I can read them! Haha
They are good, but maybe some of the songs needed more research into what the writers said it was about. Even the police have said every breath is not a love song. It's about someone being stalked. And they are telling the victim they will never leave them.
I don't like the ones with the actual artists included, but overall, this is brilliant!
I'll be honest, these are more like retro horror movie posters... just putting it out there...
I just finished a great book called "Paperbacks from Hell" about pulp thrillers from the 70s and 80s - these would fit right in!
"Every Breath You Take" was never written as a love song. Sting has multiple times confirmed it is indeed a song about a stalker and he has said he doesn't understand why people think it is a love song. Other than that great job and very creative!
These are absolutely wonderful! As a horror fan and avid reader I can honestly say I wish more book covers had such quality work on them. Unfortunately all too often, even on King's books, the art is sub par.
With the book pictures all these titles now sound like episodes of Tales from the Crypt
These are soo good! I kinda wish they were real soo I can read them! Haha
They are good, but maybe some of the songs needed more research into what the writers said it was about. Even the police have said every breath is not a love song. It's about someone being stalked. And they are telling the victim they will never leave them.
I don't like the ones with the actual artists included, but overall, this is brilliant!
I'll be honest, these are more like retro horror movie posters... just putting it out there...
I just finished a great book called "Paperbacks from Hell" about pulp thrillers from the 70s and 80s - these would fit right in!
"Every Breath You Take" was never written as a love song. Sting has multiple times confirmed it is indeed a song about a stalker and he has said he doesn't understand why people think it is a love song. Other than that great job and very creative!
These are absolutely wonderful! As a horror fan and avid reader I can honestly say I wish more book covers had such quality work on them. Unfortunately all too often, even on King's books, the art is sub par.