@toddalcott turns songs into posters of #retro, #pulp paperback book covers, and it's brilliant ✨️✨️
I wish I could get my hands on these, they're just 😍😍😍
Not a great photo but there's a stack of these wrapped up already. I'm not sure how the coloring will effect prints once these dry, but that's what happens when I don't think ahead and toss in all my random bits and scraps. 😅
I also ended up with way more pulp leftover than I had planned for. I'll have to make space so I can use that too.
I've been collecting bits of cardboard, leftover dryer lint, and all the scraps of different papers and botanicals that I can get my hands on for a few months now. I think today is the day when I finally turn them all into paper for a few of my photography prints and art to go on. Wish me luck and hopefully, I'll post some pictures soon!
In 1929 Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward) thought he'd try for a new super-evil antagonist. Maybe tired of Fu-Manchu?
This book was a real failure, and remains so. It jumps around, the characters are cardboard, and the plot is thin. Roscoe is no Nayland Smith, and the Zones are no Si Fan.
But it is interesting, just the same. Glad to find it in Faded Page.
Virgil Finlay served in the US Army during WWII and saw combat in the South West Pacific theater, but also created posters and illustrations for the Morale Services during his three years of service. This is one of those illustrations as it is signed, "Oahu, Hawaii 1945". His editor must have liked it because he commissioned Finlay’s friend and fine writer Catherine L. Moore to create a story based on it.
When Henry Kuttner (another fine writer) and Moore were married in 1940, Virgil was his Best Man. The resulting story, “Daemon”, was first published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1946 which you can read here:
@yerald@bookstodon #pulp#SciFi#sciencefiction
I love them. I have a large #Calibre library full of old ScIFi, Fantasy and Pulp Mystery, and I collect the covers as well as the books. Often have several alt covers on a pulp book or magazine story. Here is a favourite.
He was specialized in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. He wrote as Nictzin Dyalhis. During his lifetime he attained a measure of celebrity as a writer for the pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales. via @wikipedia