“I’ll be lurking for you!” was the catchphrase of host Dr. Paul Bearer at the end of every episode of “Creature Feature” on TV when I was growing up.
When I first thought about redoing the cover for Skulk, I thought about continuing with the “sinister creature lurking in a dark place” thing, but don’t have the skill to illustrate that myself. I could hire someone, but… really I wanted to do this stuff myself. So I had to change the plan.
I thought… a rat. A red-eyed, vicious-looking rodent in a sewer or dungeon or attic or something. But all the public-domain rat imagery I found was adorable. đŸ˜€ I started searching for other phrases and “lurk” turned up quite a few good options.
Humans who skulk around watching people are probably some of the scariest creatures there are. So after trying a couple of other things, I went with a photo by Luis Aquino on Pexels, with added grain and color drama. (I fully acknowledge that the red eye is silly, but a lot of horror does have an aspect of goofiness to it, as the good Doctor knew quite well.)
The cover image on Bandcamp is at https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2138278063_10.jpg .
