Showing posts with label Virgil Finlay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virgil Finlay. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Galaxy Science Fiction


An assortment of Galaxy Science Fiction digest covers by Ed Emshwiller, Wally Wood, Virgil Finlay and others.


Galaxy, November 1952. Cover art by Jack Coggins.


Galaxy, January 1953. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller.


Galaxy, August 1953. Cover art by Mel Hunter.


Galaxy, December 1953. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller.


Galaxy, April 1954. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller.


Galaxy, December 1954. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller.


Galaxy, January 1955. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller.


Galaxy, February 1955. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller.


Galaxy, June 1956. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller.


Galaxy, August 1956. Cover art by Virgil Finlay.


Galaxy, October 1956. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller.


Galaxy, August 1957. Cover art by Jack Coggins.


Galaxy, October 1959. Cover art by Wally Wood.


Galaxy, August 1960. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller.

These digests and lots more cool stuff are for sale in my eBay store.

Here's a handy web site that indexes all the issues of Galaxy Science Fiction digest.

Friday, May 4, 2012

Virgil Finlay Weird Tales Cover


Virgil Finlay's pencil rough for the May 1952 issue of
Weird Tales and a scan of the published magazine.




Friday, November 18, 2011

VIrgil Finlay



Here's a stunning cover by Virgil Finlay for the October 1962 issue of Galaxy.




Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Classic Science Fiction Art


Some great old science fiction art...




"Palos of the Dog Star Pack." Cover for Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1942, art by Virgil Finlay.




Cover for Wonder Stories, February 1933, art by Frank R. Paul.




"The Buttoned Sky." Cover for Imagination magazine, art by Harold W. McCauley.




"Stellar Stories" by Hannes Bok, n.d.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Arkham House


Arkham House is a publishing company started in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Originally began to preserve the works of H.P. Lovecraft, the press went on to publish works by authors such as Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Bloch, and Ramsey Campbell. The covers for Arkham House editions are always graphically interesting, and oftentimes really creepy. Here's a selection:


Who Fears the Devil

Who Fears the Devil
by Manly Wade Wellman, 1963. Cover art by Lee Brown Coye.


Witch House

Witch House by Evangeline Walton, 1945.


The Traveling Grave

The Traveling Grave
by L.P. Hartley, 1948.


3 Tales of Horror

3 Tales of Horror
by H.P. Lovecraft, 1967. Cover art by Lee Brown Coye.


The Doll and One Other

The Doll and One Other by Algernon Blackwood, 1946.


The Survivor and Others

The Survivor and Others by H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth.1957.


Strange Gateways

Strange Gateways
by E. Hoffman Price, 1967.


Something Near

Something Near
by August Derleth, 1945.


Something Breathing

Something Breathing by Stanley McNail, 1965.


Skull-Face and Others

Skull-Face and Others
by Robert E. Howard, 1946. Cover art by Hannes Bok.


The Shuttered Room

The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces by H.P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands, 1959.


Poems for Midnight

Poems for Midnight by Donald Wandrei, 1964.


The Outsider and Others

The Outsider and Others by H.P. Lovecraft, 1939. Cover art by Virgil Finlay.


Not Long For This World

Not Long For This World by August Derleth, 1948.


Nine Horrors

Nine Horrors by Joseph Payne Brennan, 1958.


At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, 1964. Cover art by Lee Brown Coye.


The Mask of Cthulu

The Mask of Cthulhu by August Derleth, 1958.


Invaders From the Dark

Invaders From the Dark by Greye la Spina, 1960.


The Horror From the Hills

The Horror From the Hills
by Frank Belknap Long, 1963.


Dagon

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, 1965. Cover art by Lee Brown Coye.


A Hornbook for Witches

A Hornbook for Witches by Leah Bodine Drake, 1950.


Genius Loci and Other Tales

Genus Loci and Other Tales by Clark Ashton Smith, 1948.


Dreams and Fancies

Dreams and Fancies by H.P. Lovecraft, 1962.


Demons and Dinosaurs

Demons and Dinosaurs by L. Sprague de Camp, 1970.


Tales of the Cthulu Mythos

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft and Others, 1969.