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Kris Kuksi’s got a book, Divination and Delusion, coming out in November via Beinart Publishing.

If you’re not familiar with Kris and his work, he’s a painter and sculptor but, IMHO, it’s the sculpture (or diorama) work that sets him apart.  With a tip of the hat to Bosch, Kris creates nightmarish landscapes filled with all manner of grotesque creatures and machinery.  From what I understand, Kris travels the globe in search of “materials” for his projects (a skull here, a WWII tank model there) and then retreats to his rural Kansas home to “arrange” everything.  The end result is stunning, to say the least.

Get a look for yourself at Kris’ website…many of the pieces are huge (literally room filling) so take the time to zoom in on the images to get a full appreciation for the amazing detail.

Photo by Tyler Anderson, 2010

Suicide Girls posted a nice interview with Justin Cronin, the author of The Passage, back in June.  If you haven’t read this book yet, I highly recommend it.  Folks’ll tell you it’s about vampires but that’s way too easy; I think of it as post-apocalyptic survival-horror with heart.  Ridley Scott’s picked up the film rights so there’s a good chance we’ll see a big-screen adaptation in the future.  Supposedly this is the first in a series of three books, the second to be released in 2012.  I, for one, am waiting with baited breath.

FYI: Suicide Girls is definitely NSFW; the page I’ve linked to is fairly tame but if you navigate away within their site, BE WARNED, there are tattooed boobies everywhere.