Dave Carson (born 1955) is a Northern Ireland-born artist and novel illustrator.

Career

Carson has been presented with five British Fantasy Awards for Best Artist during more than twenty years of illustration. He is most famous for his illustrations in H. P. Lovecraft's novels, and his work for

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. His role-playing game artwork includes '' Call of Cthulhu'', '' Palladium Fantasy'', ''

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''. Carson provided illustrations for ''The Clock of Dreams'' (1978) and the

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'' (1987). He contributed artwork to the H. P. Lovecraft anthology ''

Shadows Over Innsmouth ''Shadows over Innsmouth'' is an anthology of stories edited by Stephen Jones. It was published by Fedogan & Bremer in 1994 in an edition of 2,100 copies of which 100 were signed by the contributors. The anthology contains the H. P. Lovecraft ...

''.Sawicki, Steven (January 2002). "Shadows Over Innsmouth", ''

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'' 23 (1): 29.

References

External links

Dave Carson homepage
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