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Innen-Illustration von Virgil Finlay für
"The Grinning Ghoul" von Robert Bloch
aus Weird Tales, June 1936
(archive.org)

#horror #WeirdTales #RobertBloch #VirgilFinlay

Innen-Illustration von Virgil Finlay für
"The Grinning Ghoul" von Robert Bloch
aus Weird Tales, June 1936
(archive.org)

#horror #WeirdTales #RobertBloch #VirgilFinlay

Innen-Illustration von Virgil Finlay für
"The Grinning Ghoul" von Robert Bloch
aus Weird Tales, June 1936
(archive.org)

#horror #WeirdTales #RobertBloch #VirgilFinlay

by Virgil Finlay

#illustration #art #creatures #fantastic #VirgilFinlay #Finlay

One of Virgil Finlay's very best illustrations in my opinion. It's for Robert E Howard's 'Skull Face'. The silhouette in the skull's eye socket is a masterpiece, as is - as always - his mastery of light and shade. #VirgilFinlay #RobertEHoward #WeirdTales #weirdart #illustration #artsky

Virgil Finlay illustrates The Star Beast by Poul Anderson, from Super Science Stories, September 1950. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #PoulAnderson #Illustration #Art #Tiger #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction

“Won’t you change?” she asked.
“Oh, yes. I won’t even be able to remember a lot of things I now know. I doubt if even the most intelligent tiger could understand vector analysis. But that won’t matter. I’ll get it back when they restore my human form.”

Virgil Finlay illustrates A Planet Named Shayol by Cordwainer Smith, Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1961. #FinlayFriday
#VirgilFinlay #CordwainerSmith #Illustration #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction

“Which do you prefer?” said the skin technician. “A great deal of pain or a couple of hour’s unconsciousness?”
“Why should I want pain?” said Mercer.
“Some specimens do,” said the technician, “by the time they arrive here. I suppose it depends on what people have done to them before they got here.”

Virgil Finlay illustrates A Planet Named Shayol by Cordwainer Smith, Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1961. #FinlayFriday
#VirgilFinlay #CordwainerSmith #Illustration #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction

“Which do you prefer?” said the skin technician. “A great deal of pain or a couple of hour’s unconsciousness?”
“Why should I want pain?” said Mercer.
“Some specimens do,” said the technician, “by the time they arrive here. I suppose it depends on what people have done to them before they got here.”

Virgil Finlay illustrates A Planet Named Shayol by Cordwainer Smith, Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1961. #FinlayFriday
#VirgilFinlay #CordwainerSmith #Illustration #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction

“Which do you prefer?” said the skin technician. “A great deal of pain or a couple of hour’s unconsciousness?”
“Why should I want pain?” said Mercer.
“Some specimens do,” said the technician, “by the time they arrive here. I suppose it depends on what people have done to them before they got here.”

Virgil Finlay illustrates A Planet Named Shayol by Cordwainer Smith, Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1961. #FinlayFriday
#VirgilFinlay #CordwainerSmith #Illustration #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction

“Which do you prefer?” said the skin technician. “A great deal of pain or a couple of hour’s unconsciousness?”
“Why should I want pain?” said Mercer.
“Some specimens do,” said the technician, “by the time they arrive here. I suppose it depends on what people have done to them before they got here.”

Virgil Finlay illustrates A Planet Named Shayol by Cordwainer Smith, Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1961. #FinlayFriday
#VirgilFinlay #CordwainerSmith #Illustration #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction

“Which do you prefer?” said the skin technician. “A great deal of pain or a couple of hour’s unconsciousness?”
“Why should I want pain?” said Mercer.
“Some specimens do,” said the technician, “by the time they arrive here. I suppose it depends on what people have done to them before they got here.”

Virgil Finlay illustrating the Henry Kuttner novelette The Voice of the Lobster, from Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1950. #FinlayFriday
#VirgilFinlay #HenryKuttner #Illustration #Aliens #ScienceFiction

Days passed, arbitrarily, of course, aboard the Sutter.
Ao lay curled in her shock-hammock, thinking her own dim thoughts and looking at nothing. High up in the wall there was a puffing sound, a scuffle, and a grunt. Behind the grille of the ventilating inlet appeared the face of Macduff.

Cover by Virgil Finlay illustrating ‘Doorway Into Time’ by C. L. Moore from Famous Fantastic Mysteries, September 1943. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #CLMoore #Illustration #Multiverse #SF #ScienceFiction

The girl leaned back on her metal bench and crossed one beautiful long leg over the other, stirring the sequined folds of her gown into flashing motion.
“How much longer, Paul?” she asked.
The man glanced over his shoulder and smiled.
“Five minutes. Look away now — I’m going to try it again.”

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

#VirgilFinlay #Illustration #Pulps #Butterfly #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF

“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

#VirgilFinlay #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Pulps #Illustration #SF #SFF #GrimReaper #Death

"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 cover for Fantastic Universe, March 1958, illustrating 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒕 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 by “Felix Boyd” (Harry Harrison). Trick, or treat? #FinlayFriday

“This is our dance,” he said in a deep voice rich with meaning. Almost automatically she took the proferred hand, unable to resist this man with the strange gleam in his eyes. In a moment they were waltzing and it was heaven.

#VirgilFinlay #HarryHarrison #Illustration #Robots #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction

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.

#VirgilFinlay #AmazingStories #Pulps #Illustration #Fantasy @fantasy

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

#VirgilFinlay #RobertBloch #HenryKuttner #Illustration #Pulps #Lovecraft #Cthulhu #Fantasy #Horror

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 original art and the published cover to Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1942. Test tube maybes. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #ScienceFiction #Illustration #Pulps #SF #SFF @sciencefiction

Virgil Finlay illustrates the Ernest Hill story ‘On the Edge of the Galaxy’ from IF Science Fiction, October 1966. #FinlayFriday
#VirgilFinlay #ErnestHill #ScienceFiction #Illustration #Pulps #SF #SFF @sciencefiction

“Well?” he said, when we reached the bank.
“We are somewhere about the center of him,” she said. “I’ll call him up.” She stirred the ooze with her foot and called “Rastus!”
The effect was, to the uninitiated, quite remarkable.

Virgil Finlay illustrates short novel ‘The Big Jump’ by Leigh Brackett from its first appearance in the magazine Space Stories, February 1953. #FinlayFriday
#VirgilFinlay #LeighBrackett #Illustration #SF #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction

Again the bird-like call came, very soft this time, but sounding much closer. There was a grove of trees perhaps sixty yards away. The two men turned toward it, curious to see if possible what sort of creature was singing in the night.

Virgil Finlay illustrates ‘The Darker Drink’ by Leslie Charteris from the October, 1947 Thrilling Wonder Stories, a tale of Simon Templar aka The Saint. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #LeslieCharteris #TheSaint #Pulps #Mysteries #Illustration

Most men wouldn’t have heard the faint faroff stirring in the forest. But the Saint’s ears, attuned by long practise to detect sound that differed from what should be there, picked up evidence of movement toward the cabin.

Virgil Finlay illustrates The Eye of Tandyla by L. Sprague de Camp from Fantastic Adventures, May 1951. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #LSpraguedeCamp #Pulp #WeirdTales #Witch #Fantasy #Sorcery

Ilepro stared into the sapphire and made a motion with her free hand, meanwhile reciting something in her native tongue. Although she went too fast for Derezong Taash to understand, he caught a word, several times repeated, that shook him to the core. The word was “Tr’lang."

Virgil Finlay illustrates The Time Masters by Wilson Tucker from Startling Stories, January 1954. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #WilsonTucker #Pulps #Illustration #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction @scifi

The ship was long gone, after plummeting past like a spent but monstrous bullet, to burst into searing flame as it struck the atmosphere and cindered. There had been scant time to escape the doomed vessel.

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

#VirgilFinlay #RobertSheckley #AmazingStories #Robot #Illustration #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction @scifi

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

#VirgilFinlay #IsaacAsimov #AmazingStories #Illustration #ScienceFiction #Astronaut @sciencefiction @scifi

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

Virgil Finlay illustrating an excerpt of the poem A Wine of Wizardry (1907) by George Sterling, as reprinted in Weird Tales, December 1937. #FinlayFriday

And, ere the tomb-thrown echoings have ceased,
The blue-eyed vampire, sated at her feast,
Smiles bloodily against the leprous moon.

#VirgilFinlay #GeorgeSterling #Poetry #WeirdTales #Pulps #Illustration #Vampire #Horror #SFF #Fantasy @fantasy

https://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/sterling02.html

Virgil Finlay illustrating Tiger’s Cage by Roger Dee, Science Stories, April 1954.
#FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #Illustration #Pulp #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction

The four of them went up the slope toward the hemispherical bulge of the weather station, bunching close together in an instinctive bid for common support. Halfway up the gentle incline Macklin paused, pointing out a distorted globular haziness that hung just above the lush grass to the right of the dome.

Virgil Finlay illustrating ‘The Moon That Vanished’ by Leigh Brackett from Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1948. #FinlayFriday

Heath stood braced against the rail, staring out into the hot indigo night.
The mists rose thick from the Sea of Morning Opals. They crept up out of the mud, and breathed in clouds from the swamps. The slow wind pushed them in long rolling drifts, blue-white and glimmering against the darker night.

#VirgilFinlay #LeighBrackett #ScienceFiction #Illustration #Pulp #SFF

Virgil Finlay illustrating ‘Potential Zero’ by “John Bloodstone” (Stuart J. Byrne) from Science Stories, December 1953. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #ScienceFiction #UFO #Pulp #Illustration #SF #SFF @sciencefiction @scifi

Virgil Finlay cover on Fantastic Novels, March 1949, illustrating "The Golden Blight" by George Allan England. Also #Mood
#FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #FantasticNovels #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #SFF

Illustration by Virgil Finlay for 'The Tin Fishes' by A. Bertram Chandler from his Rim Worlds series, Worlds of IF Science Fiction, Dec 1968. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #ABertramChandler #ScienceFiction #SeaMonster #SF #SFF

Virgil Finlay illustration for “On the Storm Planet” by Cordwainer Smith from Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1965. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #CordwainerSmith #Turtle #GalaxyScienceFiction #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF @sciencefiction

Virgil Finlay illustration for “On the Storm Planet” by Cordwainer Smith from Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1965. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #CordwainerSmith #Turtle #GalaxyScienceFiction #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF @sciencefiction

Virgil Finlay illustration for “On the Storm Planet” by Cordwainer Smith from Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1965. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #CordwainerSmith #Turtle #GalaxyScienceFiction #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF @sciencefiction

Virgil Finlay illustration for “On the Storm Planet” by Cordwainer Smith from Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1965. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #CordwainerSmith #Turtle #GalaxyScienceFiction #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF @sciencefiction

Virgil Finlay illustration for “On the Storm Planet” by Cordwainer Smith from Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1965. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #CordwainerSmith #Turtle #GalaxyScienceFiction #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF @sciencefiction

Virgil Finlay illustrating 'The Children of Night' by Frederik Pohl from Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1964. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #FrederikPohl #Illustration #Pulps #WeirdTales #GalaxyScienceFiction #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF @sciencefiction @scifi

Virgil Finlay illustrating the Harlan Ellison story ‘Wanted In Surgery’ from IF Worlds of Science Fiction, August 1957. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #HarlanEllison #Robots #Doctors #BedsideManner #ScienceFiction #SF @sciencefiction @scifi

“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

#VirgilFinlay #JudithMerril #Illustration #LivingHisBestLife #SFBC #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF @sciencefiction @scifi

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

Virgil Finlay illustrating ‘The Bird of Time’ by Wallace West from Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1952. It was incorporated with three other stories into a fix-up novel by the same name and published by Gnome Press in 1959. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #WallaceWest #Martian #WeirdTales #Pulps #Illustration #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF @sciencefiction @scifi

Virgil Finlay illustrating ’The Monitor’ by Margaret St. Clair from Startling Stories, January 1954. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #MargaretStClair #Illustration #Pulps #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction @scifi

Art by the great Virgil Finlay...

#scifi #sciencefiction #scifiart #oldscifi #virgilfinlay

Virgil Finlay illustrating ‘And Not In Peace’ by A. Bertram Chandler writing as George Whitley from Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December 1946. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #ABertramChandler #Illustration #Pulps #WeirdTales #Vampires #Dracula #Ghosts #Graveyard #Fantasy @fantasy

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

#VirgilFinlay #EdgarRiceBurroughs #ERB #Tarzan #Pulps #Fantasy @fantasy

Virgil Finlay illustrating “The Shadow of Wings” by Robert Silverberg from Worlds of IF Science Fiction, July 1963. #FinlayFriday

“He saw a body about the size of a man, covered with darkish thick fur and terminating in two short, thick, powerful-looking legs. As he watched the Kethlan shivered and stretched forth its vast leathery wings.”

#VirgilFinlay #RobertSilverberg #Illustration #WeirdTales #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction @scifi

What's this I see? Ahh yes, it's a Virgil Finlay painting on the November 1939 cover of Weird Tales, illustrating “Towers of Death” by Henry Kuttner. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #HenryKuttner #WeirdTales #Illustration #CrystalBall #Horror #Fantasy #DarkFantasy @horrorbooks @fantasy

Mood.

Also Virgil Finlay illustrating "The Big Time" by Fritz Leiber from Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1958. Winner of the Hugo Award for best novelette.

#FinlayFriday #VirgilFinlay #FritzLeiber #Illustration #Pulps #WeirdTales #GalaxyScienceFiction #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction @scifi

Virgil Finlay book jacket for this Andre Norton edited anthology from World Publishing Co., 1953. Plus a preliminary painting for same which was completely rethought. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #AndreNorton #Painting #Anthology #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction @scifi

Virgil Finlay illustrating "Bride of the Lightning" by Edmond Hamilton, from Weird Tales, January 1939. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #EdmondHamilton #WeirdTales #Pulps #Illustration #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #SFF