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Post by vaughan on Jul 28, 2009 14:56:51 GMT
I bought this today for 1.50. Nice hardback copy, surprised to see you can get it real cheap online too (though grateful I stumbled upon it locally). Anyone else have it? Some nice illustrations, and a bit of history. Not my PERFECT book on the subject, but nice nonetheless. Anyone else have it? |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Jul 28, 2009 22:26:35 GMT
Yes, I have the hardback too & paid about the same price for it in a charity shop. I used to have the paperback under the title Terror(That one actually cost me more, £8 after haggling in camden market, so not much logic there  , but gave it to a friend once I got the hard back. It's a great book & some wonderful illustrartions, made all the more impressive by the pittance artists were often being paid & with cheques often late (they were certainly doing it for the love of it). The Virgil Finlay pieces are some of my favourites. |
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Post by vaughan on Jul 28, 2009 22:48:19 GMT
This is another of those "everyone has a copy" books, I guess. I was at allthingshorror's place tonight - and guess what he proudly presented? Yup, another copy!
Nice.
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Post by bushwick on Jul 29, 2009 13:26:53 GMT
I used to have the 'Pictorial...' version years ago, it may still be at my mum's house under a pile of junk somewhere. But I found the 'Terror' paperback version in a charity shop last year. Great book, beautiful art by the likes of Finlay and the very original indeed Lee Browne Coye.
(3 seminal books from my youth would be this, the Gifford horror movie book, and I also used to have a big trade paperback about comics...wish I could remember what it was called...seem to remember it was quite a mature analysis that went over my head pretty much, but there was a full page of Crumb's 'Fritz The Cat' that seemed somehow subversive to my young eyes despite not being explicit. Might have been a Penguin book?)
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Post by dem bones on Jul 29, 2009 16:43:06 GMT
Here's the Sphere edition. Along with Pictorial History Of The Horror Stories Souvenir published companion volume The Art Of Mystery & Detective Stories. I think they were both instant remainders which is why they're still fairly easy to find. Beautiful books, both of them. Peter Haining – Terror! A History Of Horror Illustrations From The Pulp Magazines (Sphere, 1978) This book is not for the faint-hearted. Between these pages lurks a collection of the most gruesome monsters, the most bloody atrocities ever to haunt your wildest dreams – straight from the fertile imaginations of pulp publishing’s most famous artists. Here are the illustrations that over nearly two hundred years have brought to life the grisly characters created by the cream of horror writers, from the 19th Century ‘penny dreadfuls’ to classic modern magazines such as Terror Tales, Amazing Stories and Weird Tales.
If your nerves can take it, let your eyes feast on this banquet of petrifying pics – in all their grim graphic glory! |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Jul 29, 2009 23:09:44 GMT
(3 seminal books from my youth would be this, the Gifford horror movie book, and I also used to have a big trade paperback about comics...wish I could remember what it was called...seem to remember it was quite a mature analysis that went over my head pretty much, but there was a full page of Crumb's 'Fritz The Cat' that seemed somehow subversive to my young eyes despite not being explicit. Might have been a Penguin book?) Would this be the one, Bushwick? I was always looking through my Dad's copy as a kid (he still has it). Also came in very useful as refence for an essay I had to do when I was at college (Always hated those things) |
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Post by bushwick on Jul 30, 2009 9:47:10 GMT
Good work HP, that's the feller! Brings back memories. Didn't realise one of the authors was famed Beatles illustrator Aldridge. Cheers!
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, but gave it to a friend once I got the hard back. 
