Red Equinox Book Cover

Here's the final cover for the novel Red Equinox by Douglas Wynne. This was a super fun project, not only did I get to design a cover for one of my oldest friends, I got a chance to do print design (which I haven't done in over a decade). I had a lot of fun when the printer came back saying the blacks where too saturated (Insert Spinal Tap joke here).

The tentacled sphere is a digital montage of 4 different images of octopi, specialty grunge brushes and multiple layer effects to achieve the undulating, inky mass. The original teaser image had to be recreated for this final version.

Check the attachment for the full cover.

The book lives in the Lovecraftian world of Arkham with cross-dimensional, tentacled, gods and a battle to save human kind. You can find it on B&N and Amazon if you're interested

Here's the back cover synopsis:

"The Red Equinox has dawned, and the old gods who have slept for aeons are stirring.

Urban explorer and photographer Becca Philips was raised in the shadow of Miskatonic University, steeped in the mysteries of her late grandmother’s work in occult studies. But what she thought was only myth becomes all too real when cultists unleash terror on the city of Boston. Now she’s caught between a shadowy government agency called SPECTRA and the followers of an apocalyptic faith bent on awakening an ancient evil.

As urban warfare breaks out between eldritch monsters and an emerging police state, Becca must uncover the secrets of a family heirloom known as the Fire of Cairo to banish the rising tide of darkness before the balance tips irrevocably at the Red Equinox."