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david, he/him. in love/obsessed with comic books, science fiction, fantasy, horror, folklore, mythology, illustration & weird literature. self-appointed curator of #finlayfriday . political progressive, passive-aggressive. repressed/depressed, but I digress. animal friendly, enemy of the people.

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18+ dance_along_the_edge, to comicstodon
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The reason why Santa began to enter homes through chimneys was mainly to avoid the bounty hunters.

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Virgil Finlay painting on the November 1939 cover of Weird Tales, illustrating “Towers of Death” by Henry Kuttner.

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MY SHIRLEY JACKSON COLLECTION PART 4

💙📚 More vintage paperbacks, including my favorite Teason cover of all time, for WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE... Just, perfection 😍

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The best Shirley Jackson cover by William Teason for We Have Always Lived in the Castle A girl stands behind a fencepost in a field of blue

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That Teason cover is a masterpiece and very worthy of adorning that other masterpiece. Fantastic collection.

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The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007). Cover Art for the 1959 Dell first paperback printing, and the frontispiece for the 1990 Masterpieces of Science Fiction series from The Easton Press by Richard M. Powers (1921-1996). Plus an amusing note from Vonnegut about Powers.

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Female face surrounded by luminous abstract shapes with ghostly figures emerging from above against a dark background.
Dec 9, 89 Dear Pamela Pia — The C print of the Sirens frontispiece is breathtaking. How could I disapprove it? Convey my thanks to Richard Powers. He may recall our meeting in a corridor at Dell on the occasion of his first Sirens cover. I congratulated him on that job, and he look(ed) at me as though I were bananas, seemed offended that I would think that he took doing covers for S-F paperbacks seriously. I have to say that this one is ten times as deep as the first one. Better feel him out before letting him know I’m pleased. Cheers, Kurt Vonnegut

18+ dance_along_the_edge, to scifi
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The great science fiction writer Leigh Brackett was

The “Queen of Space Opera” wrote SF/F for the pulps of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1944 she wrote her first mystery novel, which came to the attention of legendary director Howard Hawks. When Hawks needed help on an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Big Sleep’…

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Science fiction pulp Planet Stories, March 1951.
Science fiction pulp Planet Stories, Summer 1946.
Science fiction pulp Planet Stories, Winter 1954-1955.

18+ dance_along_the_edge,
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But instead of heading to Hollywood after the end of the pulps, Edmond ended his long career at DC Comics. She died from cancer in 1978, but not before turning in the first draft script for what would become “The Empire Strikes Back!” Although her script was rewritten by others, many key elements remain.

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#ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #SwordandPlanet #Pulp #WeirdTales #LeighBrackett #WomenWriters #StarWars #SF #SFF @sciencefiction @scifi

1971 Ace Books “Ace Double”, “People of the Talisman / The Secret of Sinharat” by Leigh Brackett.
1974 Ballantine Books paperback, “The Hounds of Skaith” by Leigh Brackett.
1977 Del Rey/Ballantine Books paperback, “The Best of Leigh Brackett”, edited by her husband, Edmond Hamilton.

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...he told his secretary to "get this guy Brackett." She then left for Hollywood, leaving a half-finished tale for Planet Stories 'Lorelei of the Red Mist'. She asked her emerging writer friend to complete it for her, which Ray Bradbury did seamlessly. Her husband was another SF/F writer of the era, Edmond Hamilton.

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Venture Science Fiction, March 1957.
1967 Ace Books paperback of “The Sword of Rhiannon” by Leigh Brackett.
1983 Ace Books paperback, “The Halfling and Other Stories” by Leigh Brackett.

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Mood.

Also Virgil Finlay illustrating "The Big Time" by Fritz Leiber from Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1958. Winner of the Hugo Award for best novelette.

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🎨 Jerry Grandenetti & Murphy Anderson, 1968.

Story synopsis: “One night every century, four pilgrims return to life in Gateway City and try to bring their demonic master into our dimension.”

Not unlike a holiday gathering in my family.

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Virgil Finlay book jacket for this Andre Norton edited anthology from World Publishing Co., 1953. Plus a preliminary painting for same which was completely rethought.

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The same space travelers are regrouping as two of them wearing Red Cross emblems carry their fallen comrade off. The row of spaceships are behind them.

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I hate when that happens.

🎨 Frank Kelly Freas 1957

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For this special edition of , here is Virgil’s illustration for ‘Strange Compulsion’ aka ‘The Captain’s Daughter’ by Philip José Farmer. Fom Science-Fiction Plus, October 1953, edited by Hugo Gernsback. The first image was how it was printed and meant to be seen, although I love how he signed his name in a way that can be read both ways.

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The same image fully rotated to see the woman’s face right side up.

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H.P. Lovecraft's poem Hallowe'en in a Suburb was first published in a small press publication in 1926 then in Lovecraft's second posthumous Arkham House collection in 1943. For the reprint in the September, 1952 issue of Weird Tales editor D. Mcllwraith asked Virgil Finlay for an appropriate illustration.

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Hallowe'en in a Suburb by H.P. Lovecraft THE steeples are white in the wild moonlight, And the trees have a silver glare; Past the chimneys high see the vampires I'm ⁸ fly, And the harpies of upper air, That flutter and laugh and stare. For the village dead to the moon outspread Never shone in the sunset's gleam, But grew out of the deep that the dead years keep Where the rivers of madness stream Down the gulfs to a pit of dream. A chill wind weaves thro' the rows of sheaves In the meadows that shimmer pale, And comes to twine where the headstones shine And the ghouls of the churchyard wail For harvests that fly and fail. Not a breath of the strange gray gods of change That tore from the past its own Can quicken this hour, when a spectral pow'r Spreads sleep o'er the cosmic throne And looses the vast unknown. So here again stretch the vale and plain That moons long-forgotten saw, And the dead leap gay in the pallid ray, Sprung out of the tomb's black maw To shake all the world with awe, And all that the morn shall greet forlorn, The ugliness and the pest Of rows where thick rise the stone and brick, Shall some day be with the rest, And brood with the shades unblest. Then wild in the dark let the lemurs bark, And the leprous spires ascend; For new and old alike in the fold Of horror and death are penn'd, For the hounds of Time to rend.

18+ dance_along_the_edge, to comicstodon
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Detail from “Things Old…Things Forgotten” with an unnamed swamp creature by Bernie Wrightson, House of Mystery , October 1971. This is after House of Secrets (first Swamp Thing) but before Swamp Thing #1 with the updated origin.

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A nice encapsulation of Steve Gerber’s influential high wire act at Marvel Comics in the 1970s.

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https://youtu.be/sugCdzdA2Po?si=b8gkwH3FAGFXp6m4

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I’ve been compiling a list of recommended science-fiction books.

Check it out and feel free to add yours—> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16jo7x3cmkQdhpwi8cy5SJcHrLYZJXVZhgabKWtznf-c/edit

#books #scifi @bookstodon

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Added Sturgeon and Pohl, the latter I couldn’t find on bookshop dot org, but it’s easy enough to find on secondary markets.

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

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

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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

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9/20/23 Open 6-9p. No open food/drink containers, please.

This book is a beater but still a treasure. That's the way it goes, sometimes. I may keep it. Sci-fi by authors you might not expect, plus known entities of the genre and then some!


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This is truly one of my favorite sf books, I hope you kept it. A paperback-sized cute-af hardcover edited by the king of sf anthologies, Groff Conklin. Seriously, when are you likely to come across another story by A. Rowley Hilliard?

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Tanith Lee (1947-2015)

"The word of the desert was this: I am made from all the dusts of the bones of men who have perished here, and my rocks are monuments to mountains I have ground away.
There were no green places, no springs. To this desert, such as these were wounds which it had healed with aridity. What it could not eradicate, it buried."

  • Death's Master (1979)

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http://www.daughterofthenight.com/tlbio.html

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Today in Writing History September 10, 1960: Alison Bechdel, American author and illustrator was born. She is most famous for her “Dykes to Watch Out For,” comic strip. And for her “Bechdel Test,” originally intended as a joke in one of her comics, but which has since become a routine metric used by critics as an indicator for the active presence of women in a film.

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Don’t forget her masterpiece, “Fun Home”

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@bookstodon Am I the only one who dislikes dust jackets and can't wait to get rid of them only to be sad that the actual are not decorated pretty?

Going through my this week has revealed a pattern. Mayhaps that is why I tend to buy paperbacks? But then I also dislike how flimsy they are.

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@Lullaby @bookstodon

It's all relative. I will be the first to take the DJ off a new book and toss it on a high shelf while I am reading it. OTOH as someone who loves and collects old books, when you find a favorite author's book with a lovely vintage DJ still intact, it's a beautiful thing and something to treasure. The same with paperbacks.

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To all the peeps. Did they retcon into a ? If so, how did they justify that? I am NOT talking about the show/movie.
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@Scofisticated @comics

Revealed to be a Inhuman/Mutant hybrid in a recent X-series. Yawn.

In the future, everyone will be mutant for 15 minutes - Andy Warhol

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Kamala_Khan_(Earth-616)

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I have very faint memories of a book I read in the 80's. It's not that it was terribly good, but I think I was amused by it and it's been nagging me that I can't remember what book it was.

All I remember is that there were Orcs running around in Berkeley and the protagonist was a young man.

It was your typical 80's paperback, possibly Del Rey.

It's obviously an extremely long shot, but does this ring any bells?

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Is it this perhaps? It has the “not his best work” thing down. 🤭

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Orc's_Rage?wprov=sfti1

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#Bookmail from the lovely people at Valancourt who truly do the world a service by reprinting some fabulous and sometimes long OOP books.
These are the two newest #PaperbacksFromHell from Thomas Tessier and they look fantastic. Should be able to get to them in November (hopefully, haaaa) but for now they look right at home amongst my other vintage paperbacks and PFH.

#vintagepaperbacks #OOP #reissues #NewEditions #ThomasTessier #valancourt #valancourtbooks @bookstadon @horrorbooks

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Valancourt Rules!

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Join in to know me because getting to know people by the books they hold close to their heart is great,

The Tombs of Atuan - Le Guin
Frankenstein - Shelley
Hunger Games - Collins
Last Unicorn - Beagle
The House of Spirits - Allende
The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin
Annihilation - VanderMeer
Three Times Lucky - Turnage
Good Omens - Pratchett Gaiman
Jane Eyre - Brontë
Pet Sematary - King
Howl's Moving Castle - Wynne Jones

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This is torturous, but... (not necessarily novels)

Frankenstein - Shelly
Poetry/Tales - Poe
Ghost Stories/Antiquary - James
The Martian Chronicles - Bradbury
More Than Human - Sturgeon
We Have Always Lived In the Castle - Jackson
Two-Handed Engine - Kuttner & Moore
Dangerous Visions - Ellison
Earthsea (series) - Le Guin
The Norton Book of SF - Le Guin/Attebery
The Dark Descent - Hartwell
Tales of the Flat Earth (series) - Tanith Lee
The Weird - VanderMeer

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Happy Birthday Jack Kirby
The once and future king of comics.

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Young Romance Comics #1 (Prize, 1947) The first romance comic book. Jack Kirby & Joe Simon cover “Designed For the More ADULT Readers of COMICS” A painter in his studio says to his model, “No, Linda…we can’t go on like this! You know I’m engaged to your kid sister, Jane!” Linda replies, “But darling…Jane is just a child! She doesn’t have the fire to kindle the spark of your genius! You need me, John!” Just then Jane walks in and is thinking, “Oh John…”
Fantastic Four , Marvel Comics, April 1966. The Fantastic Four (Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, Sue Storm/The Invisible Girl, Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Ben Grimm/The Thing) run for their lives as world devourer Galactus and his herald The Silver Surfer loom above them. “IF THIS BE DOOMSDAY!”
New Gods #7, DC Comics, March 1972 by Jack Kirby & Mike Royer. THE GREAT CLASH! A SHATTERING EVENT WHICH WILL HAUNT THE NEW GODS FOR AGES TO COME, ROARS IN UPON THE DEMON-WORLD OF APOKOLIPS!! SUMMONED BY A VENGEFUL IZAYA, TEAMS OF FLYING MONITORS BRING FIERY DESTRUCTION IN THEIR WAKE!! BUT…FAR FROM BEING A CHRONICLE OF THE CONFLICT, THIS IS, INSTEAD, THE STORY OF PERSONAL STRUGGLES…AND THE STRANGE FORMING OF… ”THE PACT” Two soldiers under attack scream in succession, “WAR! WAR! APOKOLIPS IS UNDER ATTACK!! THE ENEMY HAS BROKEN THROUGH OUR PARA-DEMON AIR DEFENSE!!” “WEAPON UNITS!! OPEN FIRE!!”

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No one ever called Otto Binder (1911-1974) lazy.

Writer of the Adam Link, Robot series in the pulps which were a huge inspiration to and others. Then drifted to comics with long runs at Fawcett and DC and short runs at most others. DC editor E. Nelson Bridwell assessed Binder’s total output at "almost 50,000 pages of comics".
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Wow Comics (Fawcett 1943) art by Marc Swayze Mary Marvel, a brunette girl in a red and yellow costume dress with a yellow lightning bolt on the chest and yellow boots and white cape with a yellow trim sits on a mountaintop as storm clouds and a giant lightning bolt flashes above her. Starring MARY MARVEL the "SHAZAM" girl in "THE SINISTER SECRET OF HOTEL HIDEAWAY"
The Silver Age Superman family (art by Curt Swan and George Klein) Flying or floating in the sky (L-R) Krypto the Super-Dog, Streaky the Super-Cat, Comet the Super-Horse, Mr. Mxyzptlk, The Legion of Super-Heroes in their time bubble. Standing (L-R) Ma and Pa Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Lucy Lane, Perry White, Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Superman, Supergirl, Professor Potter, Bizarro #1, Lara and Joe-El statues. Bottom left corner: Beppo the Super-Monkey. Bottom right corner: Mermaid Lori Lemaris.
Photograph of Otto Binder in a suit and tie.

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

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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…”

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🎨 Jack Kirby & Frank Giacoia
Tales of Suspense , Jan. 1967


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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"


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

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