Ethan sez, "I met Joshua Hoffine in Toronto at Fan Expo. He creates stunning horror photography and blogs about the process of creating the photohraphs here."

I guess the test of a good horror photo is whether it makes you scared and uncomfortable without resorting to pure gore. Hoffine's photos qualify.

Joshua Hoffine Horror Blog (Thanks, Ethan!)

  • jfrancis

    Nice lighting. And elaborate sets like Aaron Hawks.

    http://www.aaronhawks.net/

  • jams

    absolutely obsessed with hoffline’s work. xo

  • JoshuaZ

    Need unicorn chaser! Stat!

  • Anonymous

    Fantastic! I met Josh last year at Cinema Wasteland near Cleveland Ohio. He’s quite the artist and a gentleman to boot. Bravo!

  • NoahRodenbeek

    This would make a great cover for The Graveyard Book!

  • Ghede

    Sorry Joshua, the unicorn chasers in October are… different. This is a unicorn chaser for the fake guts article.

  • funkadelic73

    Awesome link, Cory. You on a KC kick today?

  • orwellian

    That is an amazing photo. Things like that make me happy I’m a human (take that, Martians!)

  • Anonymous

    Somewhere, Anne Geddes just felt intense psychic pain.

  • crashgrab

    Wow, the Lady Bathory pic is truly disturbing. I love these though.

  • Phoenicks

    Whoa, yeah… No. 2 is dead on. It’d have made a deadly cover pic for The Graveyard Book.

    Fuck that pic freaks me out.

  • Powerphail

    Haha, these are awesome.

  • Anonymous

    Very cool pictures. I like the monster under the bed one. I had a raised bed as a kid and because of it (and mental images similar to the picture) perfected the art of hitting the ground running to use the restroom at night.

  • EricT

    Wow that is pretty cool

  • HatOfEdshu

    Damn, I love October!

  • Anonymous

    Fun! I think they would have been scarier if they were a little more mundane-if the psycho guy in the babysitter was more normal, rather than the ghoulish brain-surgery dude, or if the woman over the tub had been limp, with just a trickle of blood.

    Subtle makes scary, because people will imagine things far worse than what you show.

  • simonbarsinister

    Notice how even the undead cannot resist curling their fingers under those cute little feet.

  • Sekino

    Awesome (and gruesome) pics! I love how he seems to always use friends and family members in the shots; must be a blast for everyone involved. I think my favorites are the monster under the bed and the snake… I want that argyle snake!

  • Auto Parts for Brains

    Who wouldn’t want a horror photo of their baby with a zombie. :P Honestly, this is pretty cool. I think that we will never lose our fascination with the scary and the horrific. With Halloween coming, this is one idea that I think people will jump at.

  • HatOfEdshu

    … and damn, I love BoingBoing in October!