THE HORRORS OF IT ALL: Karswell's Night Gallery #2

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Karswell's Night Gallery #2

WEIRD TALES, Leo Margulies, ed / Cover Art by Virgil Finley
(Pyramid Books, 1964)

Great paperback horror collection with a fantastic Virgil Finley cover, the inside features all the major pulp heroes of the 30's and 40's like Howard, Bloch, Derleth, Leiber, Lovecraft, Long etc...

7 comments:

Monster-Maniac said...: Awesome art!!! Now I'll have to google that guy... This will most likely turn into an obsession... See you at the funny farm...; 9/23/2007
Anonymous said...: Looks like somenthing from PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE,only with higher production values,speaking of which did anyone else watch it tonight on TCM? do it to upgrade your stupid minds!(------! ------! you know what goes there!); 9/23/2007
Dead Rock n Roller said...: Virgil Finlay was amazing. I have an issue of Juxtapox from a couple of years ago that details his technique and gives a good overview of his work. In the article it said that he would dip his pen in the ink, place one dot on the paper, wipe the tip clean, and then repeat for the entire picture.; 9/23/2007
Mr. Karswell said...: Missed Plan 9, but I did catch the TCM premiere of CORRUPTION starring Peter Cushing which looked amazing in widescreen. Time to throw away the crappy old vhs print with commercials... hurrah!; 9/23/2007
Anonymous said...: WOW! I NEED TO FIND A COPY OF THIS!!; 9/23/2007
Eyeball said...: This looks vaguely familiar; 9/24/2007
Anonymous said...: I happened to see this when I bought a copy on ebay. I googled the guy and found this site. I want to print out the full-size version onto canvas. It is amazing.
Where would I get the full-sized copy without the author list and title across it?; 10/16/2007

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