Jason Van Hollander

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Jason Van Hollander is an award-winning illustrator, book designer and occasional author. His stories and collaborations with Darrell Schweitzer earned a World Fantasy Award nomination. Van Hollander's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Weird Tales, Interzone, Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, The New York Review of Science Fiction and other publications. Van Hollander's morbid and grotesque artwork adorns dust jackets of books published by Arkham House, Golden Gryphon Press, Subterranean Press, Tor Books, Night Shade Books and Ash-Tree Press. He has illustrated books and stories by Thomas Ligotti, Gregory Frost, John Clute, Gerald Kersh, Fritz Leiber, Matthew Hughes, Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson, Clark Ashton Smith and Matt Cardin. Van Hollander was nominated twice for the International Horror Guild Award before winning in 2003. He has won two World Fantasy Awards (2000, 2004). In 2005 Van Hollander received a second award recommendation from The British Fantasy Society.

In a recent interview, Thomas Ligotti made the comment that “Jason’s work reminded me how technically accomplished he is as an artist, aside from the fact that he has a singular and distinguished imagination. That my own work has gained the esteem of someone as gifted as him is for me the only true confirmation that I haven’t completely wasted my time as a horror writer. . . .”