Steve Crisp

Steve Crisp is a British illustrator who has produced cover paintings for thousands of paperbacks since the 1980s, working in a richly detailed, oil-on-board style well-suited to horror, fantasy and historical fiction. His work appeared on numerous editions of James Herbert, Stephen King, Brian Lumley and Tanith Lee novels for British publishers including New English Library, Hodder & Stoughton and Pan, and across multiple genre lines for Reader's Digest (Wikipedia)