The artist known simply as Brom has a brilliant style that falls between the impressionism of Frazetta and the pop classicism of Boris. His palette is perfectly balanced between the dark and muted and the lushly colorful.

Brom's imagination wanders from the sexually seductive to the fascinatingly bizarre, often uniquely mixing the two.

Darkwerks gathered a wealth of images from his days as a painter of illustrations for trading cards, games and book covers.

The Plucker, his new book, is a masterpiece of macabre storytelling. The Plucker was inspired by Brom's childhood memories of imagined terrors that lived in the family's dank cellar. In this, his first novel, a child's toys come terrifyingly to life and takes sides in a fight to claim or to save the boy's soul.

A modern masterpiece of creepy horror and inspired art.