Category Archives: Art

Artist Profile: The Weird Covers Of Mally and RLM

Posted on by Dazzling Erin

A 1911 graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, George William Mally is today remembered as the cover artist for the earliest issues of Weird Tales.  He always signed his work “Mally” and then added RLM immediately afterwards.  RLM stood for Rita Lena Mikelson, who was Malley’s wife.  It’s not known how much Rita contributed to the covers,  She was never credited on any of Malley’s post-Weird Tales work and it doesn’t ever appear that she ever attended art school or was credited with any work on her own.  What is known is that Rita and George were married from 1917 until Malley’s death in 1971 and that they had two sons.  Ruth passed away in 1977.

Here are a few Weird covers from Mally and RLM.  All of these covers come from 1923 and 1924.

The Covers of The Magazine Of Horror

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From 1963 to 1971, 36 issues were published of The Magazine Of Horror.  The magazine paid homage to pulp magazines of the 1920s and 30s and each issue mixed new stories with reprints from authors like H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, H.G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, and others.  The magazine was even published on the same type of cheap paper that was used for the original pulps.

Here’s a small selection of covers from The Magazine of Horror!  When known, the artist is credited.

by Carl Kidwell

by Garry Marrow

by Virgil Finlay