BY THEIR COVERS!

Bury me in books.

Here's a hodgepodge of beautiful book covers; selected solely for their visual merit. There's certainly no real pattern here, the years and genres jump all over the place; SF, Adult, Horror - it doesn't matter as long as it looks great. Some of the covers are by famous artists (note the Virgil Finlay art), and some are by complete unknowns. I've wanted to post some of these for quite a while, click to enlarge.

Beaumont, whom you know as the third writer for the original 'Twilight Zone" (along with Richard Matheson and Rod Serling, natch), did several books of varied types.

the Weird Art of LEE BROWN COYE Part 5

Another astounding collection of macabre images by our favorite here at FSR, Mr. Lee Brown Coye; all culled from one single glorious issue of Weird Tales. These illustrations are for stories by E. Everett Evans, Harold Lawlor, and the incredible Allison Harding - whom, try as I might, I cannot locate any information on. I tacked on a Arkham House advert at the end.

3D DANSE MACABRE

A real surprise for 1988, this comic appears to be a horror off-shoot of an all 3D book featuring the work of Freedom School Records faves Lee Brown Coye and Matt Fox! Check out that incredible Matt Fox cover ... wow!

I've tried to make the images more viewable; the 3D thing was making it tough. The last image is the last (and best) page of a Matt Fox horror comic.

Click for super-sizing, and enjoy!

the Weird Art of Boris Dolgov, Humistone, Bok, and M.N. Beale

Boris Dolgov was a contemporary of Lee Brown Coye, Virgil Finlay, and Hannes Bok; all artists for Weird Tales. Like Bok, it seems like Dolgov was not at all shy about drawing sexy girls. I particularly enjoy the heading for the Bradbury short story by M.N. Beale and hope to do an entire post on Mr. Beale in the future.

As always, click the images for large scans. Enjoy!

the Weird Art of LEE BROWN COYE Part 4

Another jaw-dropping smattering of the beautiful and weird from the master; Lee Brown Coye. All images from this post are from the July 1947 issue of WEIRD TALES (pictured above). Also in this issue are some choice pieces from M.N. Beale, which will be posted this week.
Click the pictures for awesomely large scans!

Meet "the Lonleys" ... !

I call them the "Lonleys", and I'm sure you can see why. They radiate sinister and cruel human emotion, evoking sympathy only to belittle. Just like REAL people! The uncredited art is beautiful and maintains an impressive sort of grossness. I hope you like them too. Please pass along ANY information you may have as well. Click 'em for big scans. Also sorry about the spotty scanning, I'm learning photoshop on my own and these prints are too large to scan all at once.









The final image is my favorite, and notice the lyrics were used by the Vivian Girls in their tune "Such A Joke"!

the Weird Art of Lee Brown Coye - Part 3

A few of my friends have asked me to post more Lee Brown Coye art. At first I feared for not having enough top shelf material, but digging through my paper goods at home has proven to be quite fruitful; and I have two full posts of Mr. Coye's art that I have yet to deliver: his best art for Whispers and his astounding cover art for Arkham House. Below is the Lee Brown Coye art for the entire "Sleep No More" book, edited by Arkham House's own Mr. August Derleth (he did a few like this for other publishers, sometimes with Coye art as well). Coye did art specifically for each story and the results are superb. Each story is listed with author after its respective illustration. Enjoy!

Now this is the kind of page I like to see when I open a book!




From August Derleth's forward.


M.R. James' "Count Magnus"

Henry S. Whitehead's "Cassius"

Algernon Blackwood's "The Occupant of the Room"

Clark Ashton Smith's "the Return of the Sorcerer"

Thomas Burke's "Johnson Looked Back"

Howard Wandrei's "the Hand of the O'Mecca"

H.R. Wakefield's "He Cometh and He Passeth By"

John Collier's "Thus I Refute Beelzy"

Robert Bloch's "the Mannikin"

Wilfred Blanch Talman's "Two Black Bottles"
M.P. Shiel's "the House of Sounds"

Carl Jacobi's "the Cane"

Hazel Heald's "the Horror in the Burying Ground"

Maurice Level's "the Kennel"



Both from Robert W. Chambers' "the Yellow Sign"

Robert E. Howard's "the Black Stone"

Alfred Noyes' "Midnight Express"

Stephen Grendon's "A Gentleman from Prague"


Frank Belknap Long's " the Black Druid"



Both from H.P. Lovecraft's "Rats in the Walls"