Blair Earl Reynolds (January 11, 1962 – August 12, 2021)[1][2] was a fantasy artist and writer whose work appeared in various tabletop role-playing games and periodicals.
[5] Reynolds also contributed a written piece to Issue #4 (December 1991), "From the Investigative Journals of Mikhail Aksakov", but it was his cover art that was notable, featuring a topless multi-armed female god.
[3]: 206 This exacerbated the discontent that Reynolds was beginning to feel about the games industry, which he felt was limiting his ability to explore the erotic and perverse boundaries of the Cthulhu mythos.
[3]: 248 Reynolds wanted to publish edgy Cthulhu mythos materials, and the first work was the sexually explicit horror graphic novel Black Sands (1996).
[10] He also provided artwork for Pagan Publishing's Call of Cthulhu campaign The Realm of Shadows (1997), which elicited special comment from reviewer Ray Winninger, who called his reaction to the illustrations "a uniquely Lovecraftian and unsettling experience the first time I flipped through this booklet [...] I stumbled over Reynolds' drawings of horrifying ghouls and monstrosities, all executed in the same photorealistic style.