Rough Edges

  The art on this cover is by Robert Gibson Jones, who did a bunch of covers, most of them excellent, for FANTASTIC ADVENTURES. William Bren...

This is certainly an odd cover by Ray Quigley on the May 1942 issue of WEIRD TALES. But it's eye-catching, so it did its job. There are ...

Rudolph Belarski provides the eye-catching cover for this issue of THRILLING MYSTERY, and spinning the yarns inside are Robert Bloch, G.T. F...

I don’t own a copy of this pulp, but I recently read the e-book version of it published by Radio Archives. I don’t know who painted the cove...

I don't think J. Allen St. John's cover on this issue of FANTASTIC ADVENTURES is one of his best, but it's still pretty darned g...

That's a dramatic cover on this issue of MAMMOTH WESTERN, painted by Arnold Kohn, an artist I'm not familiar with. I'm very fami...

This cover by James B. Settles is intriguing enough to make me want to read the story that goes with it, so I guess it did its job. I don...

I hate snakes in real life, but for some reason, put one on the cover of a pulp or a book and it always catches my attention. Throw in a sca...

Robert Gibson Jones did a lot of great covers for various Ziff-Davis pulps. I like this one on the November 1942 issue of AMAZING STORIES...

Pretty good cover by Milton Luros on this issue of ASTONISHING STORIES, Popular Publications' science fiction pulp. And you certainly...

From very late in the Weird Menace boom, this issue from the Thrilling Group's entry in that genre has an eye-catching cover and some...

(The material in this post originally appeared in somewhat different form on April 24, 2008 and May 27, 2008.) I love the old Ace ...

I used to own this issue of WEIRD TALES and read it many years ago, but I'm afraid I don't remember much about it except the H. B...

This cover is by Earle Bergey, although you might not guess that to look at it. Not a space babe in sight. But plenty of good authors, in...

This cover by Franklin Wittmack is on the mild side for WEIRD TALES, but what a fine issue this is. I read it a number of years ago and s...

SPIDERWEB is the other half of the recent Robert Bloch double from Hard Case Crime. (Yes, I’m reading a lot of HCC books these days, for som...

I love the old Ace Doubles. The Westerns and the science fiction doubles were fairly common in this area when I was a kid, and I read a bunc...