The Police's " Every Breath You Take " was already a pretty creepy song . So it's only natural, what with the Internet thinking of basically everything, that some genius would render it — and many other far more benign love songs, like Lionel Richie's "Hello" and Paul Young's "Everytime You Go Away" — as the cover of a Stephen King-style horror paperback.
Really, you owe it to yourself to immediately visit the Instagram feed of Butcher Billy , the Brazilian artist who created the series he calls "Stephen King's Stranger Love Songs." (He's been at this for some time, actually — a previous series amalgamated comic book characters and pictures of musicians, like Ian Curtis and Batman.) The whole thing is glorious, both as a design project and as a running commentary about how creepy love songs can be.
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