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Virgil Finlay cover to Future Science Fiction, June 1959, illustrating ‘Obey That Impulse!’ by Laurence M. Janifer. #FinlayFriday

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“I would like to take a…little bath. It would be so much fun. Like a picnic.”
Oh, God!
“We’re not in that much of a hurry,” she found herself saying.
Dobit smiled at her, butterflies churning the air over his head. Some of them, as a matter of fact, were almost as big as his head.

This one seems appropriate for this week. December 1946 Famous Fantastic Mysteries cover by Virgil Finlay, illustrating the Francis Sibson story, Unthinkable. #FinlayFriday

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"An outcast ship on a lost horizon, she sailed toward her strange rendezvous with the dead — the ghost vessel which had fought back from the legends of the past — to find no world left to hear her story!"

Virgil Finlay illustrates 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗺’𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗶𝗳𝗲 by Rog Phillips from Amazing Stories, September 1952. #FinlayFriday

Was Lilith in the room unseen? He peered about, studying the air for signs of refraction or anything else that might be different. There was nothing, except for the growing electric tension. Suddenly his eyes were drawn to a flicker of yellow flame that seemed to come out of the floor.

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Virgil Finlay illustrates ‘The Black Kiss,’ a Cthulhu Mythos story by Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner from Weird Tales, June 1937. #FinlayFriday

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He was swimming parallel with the beach now, and with curious detachment he observed that the storm had subsided. A pale, fog-like glow hovered over the lashing waters, and it seemed to beckon.

Virgil Finlay illustrates Robert Sheckley's Beside Still Waters, first published in the October-November 1953 issue of Amazing Stories. #FinlayFriday

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Isaac Asimov’s first published story, ‘Marooned Off Vesta’ (March 1939), reprinted for its anniversary with a Virgil Finlay illustration in Amazing Stories, March 1959. #FinlayFriday

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“Gradually the effect of the excitatory beam upon the molecules of the wall became noticeable.“

“Your April Selection”

Virgil Finlay art for the April-May 1965 Things To Come for the Science Fiction Book Club, advertising The 9th Annual of the Year’s Best SF edited by Judith Merril. #FinlayFriday

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c/o Black Gate https://www.blackgate.com/2022/10/16/the-art-of-things-to-come-part-4-1964-1966/

A 27 year old Virgil Finlay illustrating The Lord of the Jungle in one of ERB's final tales from Argosy Weekly, August 23, 1941. Surely one of his final assignments before entering WWII. Burroughs, in his late 60s and in Honolulu during the attack on Pearl Harbor, became one of the oldest war correspondents for the duration. Please, don't be shy, drop your best "dude wrestling a python" jokes below. ⬇️ #FinlayFriday

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Virgil Finlay illustrating "Witch of the Four Winds," a 1963 Brak the Barbarian tale by John Jakes.

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