Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Pulp Cover Artwork





I loved the era of the beautiful pulp covers. Wild illustrations and paintings that were designed to grab the attention of passers by - usually aimed a a male market with lovely ladies in peril.

The time and effort spent on the creation of original art for these covers is magical to me. And the stories within their pages were sometimes created by writers that were at the top of their game and free to play with strange themes and wild fits of imagination.

Take a look at some of these amazing covers.
















 The magazine above had several stories and poems within it. 


Serials/Complete Novels:
The Vampire Master [Part 1 of 4]..........Hugh Davidson Novelettes:
The House of the Worm..........Mearle Prout
The Mansion of Unholy Magic..........Seabury Quinn
The Pool of the Black One..........Robert E. Howard
Short Stories:
The Black, Dead Thing..........Frank Belknap Long
The Festival..........H. P. Lovecraft [Weird Tales Reprint]
The Plutonian Terror..........Jack Williamson
The Seed from the Sepulcher..........Clark Ashton Smith
Short Fiction:
The Cat-Woman..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Poems:
The Ultimate Word..........Marion Doyle 




Robert Bloch of PSYCHO fame









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