The making of A dark and stormy nightmare, step by step...

I used this as rhe background image and a layer mask to paint out the unwanted areas.

Overlayed this onto the background and with a layer mask painted out the sky and other unwanted areas.

Thanks go to ruivalesouussa for the image.

Screen Grab - proof of purchase for the istock photo seen in step 2.

This is one of my own photos. Again I overlayed it on top of the previous layers and used a layer mask to brush away unwanted areas.

I painted in the smoke coming from the fires of hell, and painted in the glowing red areas.