Hiraku Tales of Horror

── Now showing ──

The Exhibit.

A curated collection of horror illustrations, manga pages, fragmented nightmares, and visions pulled from the worlds of Hiraku Taylor.

❉ Walk slowly. The work watches back. ❉

恐怖の物語 — Tales of Horror
Plate 01

Tales of Horror

恐怖の物語

Cover plate — the cast of nightmares assembled in grain and shadow.

She Smiles in the Dark — Aperture
Plate 02

Aperture

She Smiles in the Dark

Stippled portrait of the thing that wears beauty as a mask.

Two Faces, One Dream — Awake, Yet Still Dreaming
Plate 03

Awake, Yet Still Dreaming

Two Faces, One Dream

Shattered glass between the dreamer and what dreams of her.

She Was Behind Him the Whole Time — What Happened to Yukio Sukimoto
Plate 04

What Happened to Yukio Sukimoto

She Was Behind Him the Whole Time

A boy realizes the room has been wrong all along.

じっ… から… — Anthology Page
Plate 05

Anthology Page

じっ… から…

Sequential descent — the moment something looks back.

Sleep Paralysis, No. 5 — Awake, Yet Still Dreaming
Plate 06

Awake, Yet Still Dreaming

Sleep Paralysis, No. 5

She wakes. Two pale moons are still watching.

Chapter 3 — Yukio's Ghost — What Happened to Yukio Sukimoto
Plate 07

What Happened to Yukio Sukimoto

Chapter 3 — Yukio's Ghost

Title page. The dead do not stay where you bury them.

The Ceiling Light Spread — Awake, Yet Still Dreaming
Plate 08

Awake, Yet Still Dreaming

The Ceiling Light Spread

Pages 015–016. The light hums. The room forgets she is in it.

ほぅわぁ… — Awake, Yet Still Dreaming
Plate 09

Awake, Yet Still Dreaming

ほぅわぁ…

Page 017. Something blooms through the static, smiling.

Four Stages of Looking Back — Studies in Horror
Plate 10

Studies in Horror

Four Stages of Looking Back

Pen study — the eye narrows last, when it has already decided.

ぎょろり — Studies in Horror
Plate 11

Studies in Horror

ぎょろり

Halftone close-up — the moment the pupils forget how to blink.

Where We Woke — Awake, Yet Still Dreaming
Plate 12

Awake, Yet Still Dreaming

Where We Woke

Two dreamers split by a corridor of stars — neither remembers leaving.

The Smile That Wouldn't Wash Off — The Seed of Evil
Plate 13

The Seed of Evil

The Smile That Wouldn't Wash Off

Stippled portrait — something beneath the face is trying to surface.

Three Panels, One Mouth — Anthology Page
Plate 14

Anthology Page

Three Panels, One Mouth

Triptych — tears, then teeth, then the laugh that follows.

The Others Who Wore Her Face — Awake, Yet Still Dreaming
Plate 15

Awake, Yet Still Dreaming

The Others Who Wore Her Face

She turns around. They have all been her, at some point.

Two Skies, One Silence — Where We Woke
Plate 16

Where We Woke

Two Skies, One Silence

Diptych — she turns once toward the stars, then away. Neither version remembers the other.

Held by What Was Never There — Where We Woke
Plate 17

Where We Woke

Held by What Was Never There

Arms around her in the dark — she does not ask whose they are.

日本での出版を記念して — Whiskers of Vengeance × Aperture
Plate 18

Whiskers of Vengeance × Aperture

日本での出版を記念して

Commemorative plate for the Japanese publication — two muses side by side, smiling from opposite hauntings.

Rain Between Us — Aperture
Plate 19

Aperture

Rain Between Us

She watches through the downpour — the cat watches back. Neither blinks.

The Blooming Skin — Studies in Horror
Plate 20

Studies in Horror

The Blooming Skin

Faces surface from the chest like petals — every one of them remembers her name.

── A note from the curator ──

"Every illustration is a door left open. Walk through at your own discretion — some of them close behind you."

── ヒラク・テイラー · Hiraku Taylor