Alan M. Clark


Alan Marshall Clark is an American author and artist who is best known as the illustrator and book cover painter of many pieces of horror fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for his 2005 book Siren Promised.
He has won the World Fantasy Award for his illustrations, and he has won many Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists' Chesley Awards. He was Artist Guest of Honor at the 1995 World Horror Convention. His book The Paint in My Blood was nominated for the "Best Art Book" for the 2005 Locus Awards. It was also nominated for the 2005 International Horror Guild Award in the "Non-fiction" category. His artwork has been featured on signed limited editions from Cemetery Dance Publications, Lonely Road Books, Subterranean Press, Earthling Publications, and other publishers of hardcovers. His illustrations have also been on the covers and interiors of textbooks, children's books, paperbacks, magazines and CDs.
Clark received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979. He owns the publishing company, IFD Publishing. He lives in Eugene, Oregon with his wife Melody.
Clark is listed in the 2009 edition of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary edited by Robert Weinberg, Jane Frank.

Select bibliography of Alan M. Clark

The Paint in My Blood . Paperback Siren Promised . Paperback.Pain & Other Petty Plots to Keep You in Stitches ..The Blood of Father Time, Book 1, The New Cut...The Blood of Father Time, Book 2, The Mystic Clan's Grand Plot ..
  • D.D. Murphry, Secret Policeman . Hardcover / Paperback
  • Boneyard Babies. Paperback
  • Of Thimble and Threat: The Life of a Ripper Victim . Paperback
  • A Parliament of Crows. Paperback
  • The Door That Faced West. Paperback
  • Say Anything But Your Prayers . Paperback
  • Jack the Ripper Victims Series: The Double Event . ebook
  • The Surgeon's Mate: A Dismemoir. Paperback
  • A Brutal Chill in August . Paperback
  • Apologies to the Cat's Meat Man . Paperback
  • The Prostitute's Price . Paperback 13 Miller's Court . Paperback
  • Night Birds . Paperback
  • The Witch of Wapping: A Ghost Story . Paperback
  • The Will'ven't Bin. Paperback

Essays and articles

  • "Subterranean City" from Drawing and Painting Fantasy Landscapes and Cityscapes edited by Rob Alexander.
  • "Pixelated or Pixilated" from Paint or Pixel: The Digital Divide in Illustration Art edited by Jane Frank.

Works

He has illustrated book covers and interior illustrations for the following authors and more: