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Bernie Wrightson

Wrightson, Bernard Albert

October 27, 1948 – March 18, 2017 (aged 68)

Birth place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

10 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
October 1981 34 Interior Art It was, indeed, a filthy process in which I was engaged. Epic Illustrated, October 1981
December 1985 47 Interview 50% of the Cycle: Bernie Wrightson Footsteps, #6
March 1990 10 Interior Art Illustrating the Stand Midnight Graffiti, Spring 1990
November 2002 30 Interview Interview with Bernie Wrightson Mythos Collector, Fall 2002
October 2004 Cover Art Cemetery Dance, #50, 2004 Cemetery Dance, #50, 2004
2006 24 Interior Art Obsequy Subterranean, Issue #3
2019 245 Interior Art Jenifer The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2019
January 2021 Cover Art Weird Doom, January 2021 Weird Doom, January 2021
November 2022 7 Interior Art Swamp Thing #1, November 1972 (cover) Nightmare Abbey, Winter 2022
November 2022 8 Interior Art Swamp Thing #4, May 1973 (cover) Nightmare Abbey, Winter 2022

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2003 Chesley Award Best Interior Illustration Stuff Out'a My Head Nominee

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Year Publication Title
Cover 1968 The Conan Reader The Conan Reader
Cover 1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre
Cover 1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre
December 1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
Cover October 1996 Children of Dracula Children of Dracula
Cover 1997 Freak Show Freak Show
Cover May 1999 The Devil with You! The Devil with You!
Cover 2000 Hell on Earth Hell on Earth
Cover April 2000 Creatures Featured: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson Creatures Featured: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson
Cover July 2001 Creatures Featured II: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson Creatures Featured II: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson
Cover September 2001 Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide
Cover July 2002 Creatures Featured III: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson Creatures Featured III: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson
Cover October 2002 Crimes and Punishments Crimes and Punishments
Cover October 2002 From a Buick 8 From a Buick 8
Cover 2003 Gardens of the Dead Gardens of the Dead
Cover July 2003 Creatures Featured IV: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson Creatures Featured IV: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson
Cover October 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla
Cover October 2004 Cemetery Dance, #50, 2004 Cemetery Dance, #50, 2004
Cover 2005 Look Out, He's Got an Axe: Doodles and Sketches on the Cutting Edge Look Out, He's Got an Axe: Doodles and Sketches on the Cutting Edge
Cover 2005 Musta torni V: Callan sudet Musta torni V: Callan sudet
Cover March 2005 Zombie Jam Zombie Jam
April 2005 Song of Susannah Song of Susannah
Cover June 2005 Walpuski's Typewriter Walpuski's Typewriter
Cover 2007 Dark Forces Dark Forces
Cover 2008 Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets Volume One Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets Volume One
Cover November 2008 Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
Cover 2011 Creepy Presents Bernie Wrightson Creepy Presents Bernie Wrightson
Cover September 2011 The Monstrous Collection The Monstrous Collection
Cover October 2017 Bernie Wrightson Artifact Edition Bernie Wrightson Artifact Edition
Cover October 2017 Bernie Wrightson: Art and Designs for Gang of Seven Animation Bernie Wrightson: Art and Designs for Gang of Seven Animation
October 2017 Bernie Wrightson: Art and Designs for Gang of Seven Animation Bernie Wrightson: Art and Designs for Gang of Seven Animation
Cover August 2019 Cycle of the Werewolf Cycle of the Werewolf
Cover January 2021 Weird Doom, January 2021 Weird Doom, January 2021
Cover September 2025 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

Year Publication Title
September 1968 Trumpet #8, September 1968 Trumpet #8
1969 Trumpet #9, 1969 Trumpet #9
March 1971 Reality #2, March 1971 Reality #2
March 1977 Acht Leckerbissen für Vampire Das Opfer
March 1977 Acht Leckerbissen für Vampire Der Vampirjäger
March 1977 Acht Leckerbissen für Vampire Der Versager
March 1977 Acht Leckerbissen für Vampire Der Werwolf
March 1977 Acht Leckerbissen für Vampire Der Zug zwischen den Welten
March 1977 Acht Leckerbissen für Vampire Die Botschaft von drüben
March 1977 Acht Leckerbissen für Vampire Die Insel der Ausgestoßenen
March 1977 Acht Leckerbissen für Vampire Donovans Dämon
October 1981 Epic Illustrated, October 1981 It was, indeed, a filthy process in which I was engaged.
November 1988 Six Fantasy Artists at Work: Dream Makers Counsel to a Minion
November 1988 Six Fantasy Artists at Work: Dream Makers Loggerhead
November 1988 Six Fantasy Artists at Work: Dream Makers Metal Man
November 1988 Six Fantasy Artists at Work: Dream Makers Page from 'Captain Stern' comic book
November 1988 Six Fantasy Artists at Work: Dream Makers Pages from 'Captain Stern' comic book
November 1988 Six Fantasy Artists at Work: Dream Makers Takin No Chances
1990 The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition
March 1990 Midnight Graffiti, Spring 1990 Illustrating the Stand
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre A Flash of Lightning
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre (promo)
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre Confrontation
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre Deep In Study
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre Despondence and Mortification
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre Dirty Work
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre Escape
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre Eye Of The Beholder
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre Failure
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre Fear My Vengeance
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre His Eyes Were Fixed On Me
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre In Search of Secrets
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre My Imagination Was Busy
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre Recourse To Death
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre The Brook
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre The Creator
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre The Lecture
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre The Maw Of Death
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre The Scaffold
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre The Unexpected
1992 Bernie Wrightson: Master of the Macabre Wretched Condition
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein "... I shall be with you on your wedding night."
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein "Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?"
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein "Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where I can find rest but in death?"
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... a thousand feelings pressed upon me, and I wept bitterly.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... I fell at last in a state of utter exhaustion ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... I found on the ground a leathern portmanteau ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... I had selected his features as beautiful.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... I often took his tools ... and brought home firing sufficient for the consumption of several days.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... I took advantage of the moment of darkness, and cast my basket into the sea ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... it was the wretch whom I had created.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... presently he called to me in a feeble voice ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... sometimes ... I left the boat to pursue its own course, and gave way to my own miserable reflections.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... the trial ... deprived them of their fortune, and condemned them to a perpetual exile ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... when the man saw me draw near, he aimed a gun, which he carried, at my body, and fired.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein ... with a loud scream, I fired the straw, and heath, and bushes, which I had collected.
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Bad Boy(s)
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein [2]
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Cemetery Club
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Full Throttle
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Full Throttle
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Full Throttle
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein He began his lecture by a recapitulation of the history of chemistry ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein I entered the room where the corpse lay, and was led up to the coffin.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein I saw him descend he mountain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein I slaked my thirst at the brook, and then lying down, was overcome by sleep.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst and want of sleep.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein In about a week after the arrival of Elizabeth's letter we returned to Geneva.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein It was, indeed, a filthy process in which I was engaged.
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Let's Eat
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre More Bad News
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Noble Mission
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Nobody in Particular
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Return Engagement
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Running Out Of Time
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein She died on the first approach of cold weather, at the beginning of this last winter.
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein She perished on the scaffold as a murderess!
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre The Intrepid Captain Sternn
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre The Soft Drink Conspiracy
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein Thus far have I gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless sea ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Till Death Us Do Part!
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
1994 Tukikohta Tukikohta
1994 Bernie Wrightson II: More Macabre Undead
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein We agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasbourg to Rotterdam ...
1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein We are still surrounded by mountains of ice ...
December 1994 Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
1996 Femme Fatales Panthera
1996 Femme Fatales Salamandra
October 1996 The Art of Wrightson Vol. I: A Pop-Up Portfolio Boy's Night Out
October 1996 The Art of Wrightson Vol. I: A Pop-Up Portfolio Eels
October 1996 The Art of Wrightson Vol. I: A Pop-Up Portfolio Indigestiion
October 1996 The Art of Wrightson Vol. I: A Pop-Up Portfolio Resurrection Revisited
October 1996 The Art of Wrightson Vol. I: A Pop-Up Portfolio Taking No Chances
October 1996 The Art of Wrightson Vol. I: A Pop-Up Portfolio Vitus and Hjalmer
1997 Freak Show "Be quiet," he said, distraught. "Just be quiet and go to sleep, Mom."
1997 Freak Show "Get out!" she cried.
1997 Freak Show "Hey Bobby Terry, you scroooowed it up!"
1997 Freak Show "Just in case." Lloyd Henried whispered to the silence.
1997 Freak Show ... to the head of the stairs and then, as carefully as she could, down to the first floor.
1997 Freak Show He advanced toward them, lineless palms turned outward, still smiling. His eyes sparkled wth warm and lunatic joy.
1997 Freak Show He felt himself begin to slide.
1997 Freak Show It was Donald Merwin Elbert, now known as the Trashcan Man.
1997 Freak Show Larry had had only one confrontation with death this morning.
1997 Freak Show She killed herself by simply whipping her head viciously around to the right.
1997 Freak Show The good weather broke three days before the new year.
1997 Freak Show The Meltification of the Fish
1997 Freak Show The Stand
April 2000 Creatures Featured: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson Creatures Featured: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson
September 2000 Ténèbres, Septembre 2000-Janvier 2001 La Caisse
October 2000 Horror of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History Tower of Shadows #9 (cover)
July 2001 Creatures Featured II: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson Creatures Featured II: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson
July 2002 Creatures Featured III: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson Creatures Featured III: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson
October 2002 From a Buick 8 From a Buick 8
November 2002 Stuff Out'a My Head Stuff Out'a My Head
2003 Gardens of the Dead Aileen & Charlie
2003 Gardens of the Dead Darryl's Stand
2003 Gardens of the Dead Jailhouse Appetite
2003 Gardens of the Dead Rediscovering Darla
2003 Gardens of the Dead Unmarked
July 2003 Creatures Featured IV: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson Creatures Featured IV: The Fantastic Creations of Bernie Wrightson
October 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla (endpaper)
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla [10]
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla [11]
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla [12]
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla [13]
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla [2]
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla [3]
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla [4]
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla [5]
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla [6]
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla [7]
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla [8]
November 2003 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla [9]
2005 Look Out, He's Got an Axe: Doodles and Sketches on the Cutting Edge Look Out, He's Got an Axe: Doodles and Sketches on the Cutting Edge
March 2005 Zombie Jam Zombie Jam
June 2005 Walpuski's Typewriter Walpuski's Typewriter
2006 Subterranean, Issue #3 Obsequy
February 2006 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla
February 2006 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla (frontispiece)
June 2006 Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft
November 2008 Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
October 2010 Riding the Bullet Art Gallery (Riding the Bullet: The Screenplay)
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection Bernie Wrightson Art Gallery
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection Bernie Wrightson Art Gallery [11]
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection Bernie Wrightson Art Gallery [12]
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection Bernie Wrightson Art Gallery [2]
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection Bernie Wrightson Art Gallery [3]
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection Bernie Wrightson Art Gallery [4]
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection Bernie Wrightson Art Gallery [5]
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection Bernie Wrightson Art Gallery [7]
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection Bernie Wrightson Art Gallery [8]
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection Bernie Wrightson Art Gallery [9]
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection Dead, She Said
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection The Ghoul
September 2011 The Monstrous Collection The Macabre
October 2017 Bernie Wrightson: Art and Designs for Gang of Seven Animation Animation concept for "Freak Show" in color
October 2017 Bernie Wrightson: Art and Designs for Gang of Seven Animation Animation concept for "Freak Show" in pencil
October 2017 Bernie Wrightson Artifact Edition Bernie Wrightson Artifact Edition
October 2017 Bernie Wrightson: Art and Designs for Gang of Seven Animation Bernie Wrightson: Art and Designs for Gang of Seven Animation
December 2017 Sword & Fantasy #13, December 2017 Sword & Fantasy #13
November 2018 Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art Swamp Thing #1 cover
2019 The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2019 Jenifer
August 2019 Cycle of the Werewolf Cycle of the Werewolf
August 2019 Wolves of the Calla Wolves of the Calla
August 2020 Masterpieces of Fantasy Art A Partially Inked Fantasy Illustration
August 2022 Paperback Fantastic, Volume 3: Horror Frankenstein
November 2022 Nightmare Abbey, Winter 2022 Swamp Thing #1, November 1972 (cover)
November 2022 Nightmare Abbey, Winter 2022 Swamp Thing #4, May 1973 (cover)
August 2023 Der Werwolf von Tarker Mills Der Werwolf von Tarker Mills (frontispiece)
September 2025 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus A Phantasmagoric Art Gallery: Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein Art
September 2025 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Comic Strip: The Muck Monster
September 2025 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus