Ghost (photographed by Erin Nicole)
It’s October and a great time to appreciate all that ghosts do for us. The haunting covers below were created for Ghost Stories, a pulp magazine that published 64 issues between 1926 and 1932. All the stories in Ghost Stories were credited as being “as told to.”
Born in Poland, painter Zdzislaw Beksinksi spent decades creating nightmarish and surrealistic images that he described as being photographs of his dreams. Sadly, Beksinski was murdered in 2005 but his work lives on.
It’s October and what better way to celebrate this month than with these seven pictures inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos?
Tsathoggua Rising by Richard Loung
The Chase by Douglas A. Sirois
Lovecraft by Francesco Francavilla
Cthulhu Rising by Richard Loung
Cthulhu Rises by Silberious
Awakening by Douglas A. Sirois
All Bow Before Mighty Cthulhu by Erin Nicole
(photographed by Erin Nicole)
Welcome to October!
Here’s hoping this month finds you with joy, family, friends, fiends, ghouls, and ghosts!
Have a safe and wonderful Halloween month!
(photographed by Erin Nicole)
Charles Copeland was an illustrator who worked for several men’s magazines and paperback book publishers in the 50s and 60s. There’s not much biographical information about him on the web but his work, which always featured manly men and sexy women in dangerous and exciting situations, speaks for itself.
Take a look at his work below.
I can’t wait to see The Peanuts Movie! I just wonder if the Great Pumpkin will make an appearance.
Bernard Safran was a painter, photographer, and illustrator known for his humanistic approach and his portraits of both the famous and the not so famous. Though he started out as an illustrator and painted several paperback covers, he is best remembered for his paintings and photographs of life in New York City. A small sampling of his work is below and you can see more of his work and learn more about his life at http://www.safran-arts.com/index.html.
Frank R. Paul was born in Austria, studied art in Vienna and Paris, immigrated to the U.S. in 1906, and went on to become one of the most influential science fiction artists of all time. After working as a graphic designer, Paul was hired to illustrated a science magazine in 1916. Paul went on to do hundreds of covers and interior illustrations for pulp magazines like Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, and Planet Stories. In 2009, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Born in Brooklyn, Stanley Borack served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and studied art at the Art Students League of New York under the G.I. Bill. He began his career as professional illustrator in 1950 and, up until he retired at the end of the 1970s, he did hundreds of covers for pulp magazines and paperback book publishers. Among collectors, he is especially known for the racy covers he did for Ted Mark’s Man From O.R.G.Y. series. After retirement, his spent his remaining years doing painting of the Old West for fine art galleries across the country.
Victor Olson was born in Connecticut and studied art at the Art Classic School of New York. He was a well-known painter, whose work currently hangs in the Smithsonian Institute Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He was also an illustrator who painted several paperback covers for such publishers as Doubleday, Avon Books, MacFadden Books, Bantan and Monarch.
A sampling of his work can be found below.
Through the Shattered Lens 