dance_along_the_edge, 7 months ago to scifi

I hate when that happens.

🎨 Frank Kelly Freas 1957

#Caturday #FrankKellyFreas #Pulps #WeirdTales #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction @scifi

dance_along_the_edge, 11 months ago to fantasy

Virgil Finlay illustrating A. Merritt's classic novel "The Face in the Abyss" reprinted in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1940. See the #AltText for more.

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dance_along_the_edge, 8 months ago to fantasy

Virgil Finlay illustration for “The Trouble with Magic” by Randall Garrett in Fantastic, March 1959. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #RandallGarrett #Illustration #Halloween #Witch #Pulps #WeirdTales #SFF #Fantasy @fantasy

stina_marie, 8 months ago to horrorbooks

📚 #Bookmail
WEIRD TALES: 100 YEARS OF WEIRD was just delivered to my door & whooo-hoo, is it pretty. Seriously. It has a kickass dust jacket, a prismatic cover, & is CHOCK-FULL of color images inside. Jonathan Maberry edited this beauty & it has mucho talent in these pages.
The classic authors you'd expect & exciting new/current ones, too 😍

#WeirdTales #Weird #horror #HorrorFiction #SpeculativeFiction #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #Pulp #Lovecraft #Book #Illustrated @bookstadon @horrorbooks

Prismatic cover of WEIRD TALES: 100 YEARS OF HORROR which has a tentacled creature embossed on to it, throwing rainbows where it catches the light
Inner front of WEIRD TALES: 100 YEARS OF HORROR which has the infamous bat girl from the first cover on the left inside panel and a b&w illustration of the dust jacket image on the right page
An old illustration from Weird Tales, July 1947 of vampires and bats reproduced in WEIRD TALES: 100 YEARS OF HORROR

dance_along_the_edge, 9 months ago to fantasy

Virgil Finlay cover painting for Famous Fantastic Mysteries, August 1941, illustrating fantasy classic The Metal Monster by his friend and supporter A. Merritt.
#FinlayFriday

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The same image as before but with the bonus of a group of three additional skeletons and a horse skeleton on the left. The cover for the August, 1941 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries featuring The METAL MONSTER By A. Merritt

dance_along_the_edge, 10 months ago to fantasy

Virgil Finlay title illustration for “Her Ways Are Death” by Jack Mann (E. Charles Vivian) from Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1952. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #JackMann #Illustration #FamousFantasticMysteries #Pulps #WeirdTales #Pegasus #Mythology #Fantasy #FantasyArt @fantasy

A continuation of the title illustration showing fallen warriors in the sea below some desperately clinging to rocks. “Her Ways Are DEATH” “The blood of the dark and fearsome Valkyrs ran in her veins. And he was the master of modern necromancy. Which would survive when the two magics clashed, as they surely must?” “Over lunch at The Three Choughs at Yeovil, Gregory George Gordon Green read through again the letter that had started him on his journey from London. Had he been in any hurry to complete that journey, he would have taken the Dorchester road out from Salisbury but the letter suggested an appointment that gave him plenty of time, and on the word of his friend Tony Briggs of the Foreign Office the cuisine and cellar of The Three Choughs justified one in making a point of lunching there. So, over coffee and a spot of liqueur brandy in the dining room…”

dance_along_the_edge, 10 months ago to fantasy

Virgil Finlay illustration for the 1919 H.P. Lovecraft story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" for it's reprint appearance in the March, 1938 issue of Weird Tales. It was later inscribed and gifted to another giant, "To A. Merritt, a master of fantasy. From Virgil Finlay"

#FinlayFriday
#VirgilFinlay #HPLovecraft #Lovecraft #AMerritt #WeirdTales #Illustration #Pulps #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #SFF @fantasy @sciencefiction