Nov 21, 2012 | Comments 0
1985 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 1850510598 | PDF | 146 MB
A PICTORIAL History OF HORROR Stories:
Two Hundred Several years of Illustrations from the Pulp Magazines
This ebook is basically a web page-for-web page reprint of Haining’s earlier e-book entitled “Terror: A Record of Horror Illustrations from Pulp Publications.†There is no new materials. The only big difference is it is a hardback with distinct cover art. Although it is rather thorough in visually documenting the evolution of horror illustration from the “penny-dreadful†publications of the Victorian age via the pulps of the ’30s and ’40s, it has a significant shortcoming â€" most of the luridly colourful pulp journal cover images are reproduced in B&W. That makes for a extremely monotonous read. These days, newer books about the pulps usually reproduce the covers in superb coloration. Why they failed to see match to do that in the ’70s and and ’80s is a thriller and a shame. An individual needs to revisit the subject of horror pulps and do it right.
4to, glossy illus bds with lurid image of monster attacking a sleeping woman, 176pp. Lavishly illus in colour and in B&W. Numerous artists are represented: Mary Byfield, Henry Anelay, John Gilbert, Sidney Paget, Margaret Brundage, and so forth. These illustrations are constantly fascinating.
A feast of nightmares in images, rescued from the crumbling webpages of prolonged dead periodicals. Ranges more than 200 many years of gory, ghoulish and terrifying from the first Gothic engravings of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to that wealthy and diverse treasure residence of horror illustrations
Category: Graphic Design
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