Showing posts with label Hannes Bok. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hannes Bok. Show all posts

Monday, October 6, 2014

Hannes Bok


A couple of Weird Tales covers by Hannes Bok.


March 1940.


May 1940.



Sunday, June 12, 2011

Sunday Odds and Ends






Blonde Phantom #18, July 1948. Cover art by Syd Shores.




Warships Passing the Statue by Robert Oliver Skemp, n.d.




Original art by Bill Everett for Navy Tales #1, January 1957.




Some Cthulhu art I found on the web, I'd like to know what it is.




Jack Kirby's classic cover for Strange Tales #107, April 1963.




All American Men of War #11, June 1954. Cover art by Jerry Grandenetti.




Crashing the Unknown by Chesley Bonestell. Advertising art from Aviation Week, August 21, 1950.




The Sentry
by Hannes Bok, 1944.




A nice picture of Adrienne Barbeau.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Classic Science Fiction Art


Some great old science fiction art...




"Palos of the Dog Star Pack." Cover for Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1942, art by Virgil Finlay.




Cover for Wonder Stories, February 1933, art by Frank R. Paul.




"The Buttoned Sky." Cover for Imagination magazine, art by Harold W. McCauley.




"Stellar Stories" by Hannes Bok, n.d.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Sunday Science Fiction





Cover preliminary by Hannes Bok, 1950.




Production art for Vanguard Illustrated #2, January 1984. Art by Dave Stevens.




Devil Girl From Mars, 1955.




Weird Fantasy #21, September 1953. Cover art by Frank Frazetta and Al Williamson.



Cover for Science Fiction, June 1939. Artwork by Frank R. Paul.




Killers From Space, 1954.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Arkham House


Arkham House is a publishing company started in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Originally began to preserve the works of H.P. Lovecraft, the press went on to publish works by authors such as Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Bloch, and Ramsey Campbell. The covers for Arkham House editions are always graphically interesting, and oftentimes really creepy. Here's a selection:


Who Fears the Devil

Who Fears the Devil
by Manly Wade Wellman, 1963. Cover art by Lee Brown Coye.


Witch House

Witch House by Evangeline Walton, 1945.


The Traveling Grave

The Traveling Grave
by L.P. Hartley, 1948.


3 Tales of Horror

3 Tales of Horror
by H.P. Lovecraft, 1967. Cover art by Lee Brown Coye.


The Doll and One Other

The Doll and One Other by Algernon Blackwood, 1946.


The Survivor and Others

The Survivor and Others by H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth.1957.


Strange Gateways

Strange Gateways
by E. Hoffman Price, 1967.


Something Near

Something Near
by August Derleth, 1945.


Something Breathing

Something Breathing by Stanley McNail, 1965.


Skull-Face and Others

Skull-Face and Others
by Robert E. Howard, 1946. Cover art by Hannes Bok.


The Shuttered Room

The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces by H.P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands, 1959.


Poems for Midnight

Poems for Midnight by Donald Wandrei, 1964.


The Outsider and Others

The Outsider and Others by H.P. Lovecraft, 1939. Cover art by Virgil Finlay.


Not Long For This World

Not Long For This World by August Derleth, 1948.


Nine Horrors

Nine Horrors by Joseph Payne Brennan, 1958.


At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, 1964. Cover art by Lee Brown Coye.


The Mask of Cthulu

The Mask of Cthulhu by August Derleth, 1958.


Invaders From the Dark

Invaders From the Dark by Greye la Spina, 1960.


The Horror From the Hills

The Horror From the Hills
by Frank Belknap Long, 1963.


Dagon

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, 1965. Cover art by Lee Brown Coye.


A Hornbook for Witches

A Hornbook for Witches by Leah Bodine Drake, 1950.


Genius Loci and Other Tales

Genus Loci and Other Tales by Clark Ashton Smith, 1948.


Dreams and Fancies

Dreams and Fancies by H.P. Lovecraft, 1962.


Demons and Dinosaurs

Demons and Dinosaurs by L. Sprague de Camp, 1970.


Tales of the Cthulu Mythos

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft and Others, 1969.