Slither Into Halloween With These Snakes!


by Griffith Foxley

Almost everyone I know is scared of snakes but most of them are harmless.  Our cats regularly bring us little grass snakes and drop them at our feet and then act surprised when we say, “No, kitty!  Get that way from me!”  If a snake is really bothering you, you can get rid of it by chopping off its head with a shovel.  That was something that my mom taught me how to do when we were visiting her parents in South Texas and there actually were potentially dangerous snakes around.  Or you can just wait for it to leave.  Most snakes aren’t that bad.  Of the 4,000 known species of snake, 83% are harmless.

The other 17% are like the ones featured in these classic pulp covers!

by Ed Valigursky

Artist Unknown

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by John Pedersen

Unknown Artist

by Rudolph Belarski

by Hans Wesselowski

Artist Unknown

Be careful out there!

 

Here Are Some Of The Amazing Covers of Amazing Stories


by Robert Gibson Jones

First published in 1926, Amazing Stories was the first magazine to be devoted to science fiction and it’s still going, nearly 100 years later!  There have been many amazing covers over the course of this magazine’s history.  Here are just a few of them.

by Arnold Kohn

by Ed Valigursky

by Frank R. Paul

by H.R. Hammond

by Harold W. McCauley

by J. Allen St. John

by Leo Morey

by Robert Frank

by Robert Fuqua

by Robert Gibson Jones

The Fantastic Covers of Fantastic


by Ed Valigursky

Fantastic was a magazine that featured stories of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.  It ran from 1952 to 1980, outlasting the majority of its competition and spinning off several other “Fantastic” magazines.  Eventually, after sells started to slow down in the 70s, Fantastic merged with Amazing Stories.  Today, issues of Fantastic are highly sought after by collectors, both for their stories and their covers.

Here are a few of the fantastic covers of Fantastic!

by Ed Valigursky

by Ed Valigursky

by Edmund Emshwiller

by George Schelling

by George Schelling

by Leo Summers

by Leo Summers

by Lloyd Buckingham

by Lloyd Buckingham

by Robert Frankenberg