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

    #horror #WeirdTales #RobertBloch #VirgilFinlay

  2. @noneuclideandreamer

    Your monochromatic stars with colored subjects reminds me of science-fiction artist, Virgil Finlay's work.

    #VirgilFinlay

  3. 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.”

  4. 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.”

  5. 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.

  6. 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.”

  7. 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.