For the past 23 years Daniel Horne has painted fantasy paperback covers for every publisher in New York. His first love is fantasy, but he has also painted covers for young adult, romance and adventure books, and was for many years the cover artist for the Hardy Boys series.
Childrens books have always been close to his heart, and he has illustrated three of them for Scholastic, Golden Books, and Doubleday Books for young readers. The book "Young Merlin" illustrated by Daniel, won the 1991 "Children's Choice Award".
So me of the many paperback covers he's done include: (by Christopher Rowley) Bazil Broketail, Battledragon, Dragons Of War, A Sword For A Dragon, A Dragon At World's End, The Dragons Of Argonath; (by Raymond E. Feist) Rise Of A Merchant Prince, Shards Of A Broken Crown, Rage Of A Demon King; (by Don Callander) Pyromancer, Acromancer, Aquamancer; Young Merlin by Robert D. San Souci, King Midas And the Golden Touch by Freyer Littledale, all five books of Joe Dever's Legends Of Lone Wolf, The List Of Seven by Mark Frost, and Dreamseeker's Road by Tom Deitz. He's also done covers for Raiders Of Cardolan by Jeffrey mcKeage, The Barbed Coil by J.V. Jones, My Son, The Wizard by Christopher Stasheff and The City of Exile by Deborah Turner Harris.
Daniel has for the past 15 years painted covers for TSR and their popular DragonLance book line.
In the over 260 paperback and 138 hardcover book covers Daniel has painted, it has been the fantasy creatures that have stood out as his trademark work. From the creatures painted for Dragon Magazine [example issues #119, 156, 128], to superhero posters for Marvel Comics, from blister card art for the Batman Forever, Congo, and Jurassic Park action figure lines, to the box art for many of the recent G.I.Joe action figure dolls, it has always been the characters that came first to Daniel.
"I studied with noted western and historical painter Ken Lagger, a 7th generation Howard Pyle student," said Daniel in an interview recently. "He instilled in me the importance of making the characters ring true, and to breath life into them. This is what I've tried to do."
After many years of creating fantasy characters in two dimensions, last year Daniel made the decision to turn his focus to sculpture. This focus is currently in creating the majority of the Middle-earth Action Figure line, and a line of one of a kind limited edition fantasy art dolls."
His work can be seen in Spectrum 2, and has recently won "Best Professional Artist" at the Philadelphia Science Fiction Convention Philcon '97.
Daniel lives in Cherry Hill, New Jersey with his wife Joy and their children Jennifer and Andrew. For  Middle Earth, Daniel has created the sculptures and control art for Gandalf, Frodo, Gollum. the Balrog, Ugluk, Gimli, and Saruman. The Nazgul He's working on Gimli and Boromir. For Warner toys, He has designed and sculpted several figures in their Sports Warrior action figure line.
In 1999 Daniel formed his own company, Flying Carpet Studioz, creating sculptures for resin model kits based on his own designs and maquettes for the film industry. Daniel's sculptures have won the Gold and Silver awards at the Phantom kit festival in both 1999 and 2000, and the Best 3-D Art at the 1999 Philcon.
At Philicon 2000, Daniel recieved awards for "Best Fantasy in Show", "Best 3-D in Show", and "People's Choice Award".
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