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Post by dem bones on Jan 27, 2014 12:37:03 GMT
Far better known as joint lead concept artist of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit blockbusters, earlier in his career Alan Lee provided (mostly uncredited) cover artwork for some of the seventies' finest horror & supernatural paperbacks, including anthologies by Peter Haining, Hugh Lamb, Robert Aickman, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Sam Moskowitz and H. Van Thal. Hope you enjoy this mini gallery.
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Post by andydecker on Jan 29, 2020 20:03:12 GMT
How could I have missed this post or the man? Wonderful work. The Nightmare Reader is alone worth buying for the artwork, not to mention the Blackburn. I just spend an hour on the ISFDB looking at his covers.
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Post by helrunar on Jan 29, 2020 21:26:56 GMT
Wow! Cool art!
This thread reminds me that one of these days or years, I will have to investigate at least one or two of the Fontana Ghost Books. Curious if their terror quotient rates more consistently than that maintained by Lady Cynthia at Pan.
cheers, H.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 30, 2020 9:17:37 GMT
Random Alan Lee Fontana's ....
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Post by helrunar on Jan 30, 2020 12:45:54 GMT
Thanks, gorgeous scans.
Maybe I'm wrong but it would seem that Aickman vs RCH as editors would result in rather different slants with what was selected. I know there are Vault threads about a lot of these volumes. Interesting.
cheers, Steve
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Post by dem bones on Jan 31, 2020 7:51:01 GMT
Alan lee Thanks, gorgeous scans. Maybe I'm wrong but it would seem that Aickman vs RCH as editors would result in rather different slants with what was selected. I know there are Vault threads about a lot of these volumes. Interesting. Very different slants. Aickman was of a mind that the genre has only forty worthwhile stories to recommend it, so no surprise he fast ran out of material. Several of his selections were strange stories, 'ghosts' optional. RCH supplemented the Victorian and Edwardian staples with newly written pieces by many of the same authors as contributed to Mary Danby's Armada Ghost, Fontana Horror, and Frighteners series,' and, of course, it is asking a lot of a production line to supply a string of "great ghost stories" on demand. I doubt there is much argument that the Aickman selections are the critics' choice. The hit and miss Chetwynd-Hayes volumes, which appear to have compiled purely as spooky entertainment rather than high art, are under-appreciated - or so it appears to me. It's a fascinating series - would that we had a modern mass market equivalent today!
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Post by dem bones on Mar 18, 2020 9:25:53 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Mar 18, 2020 19:48:17 GMT
Chris Lee was seemingly everywhere But he sure was a match for Blackwood.
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Post by humgoo on May 31, 2023 15:01:17 GMT
Daniel Farson - The Beaver Book of Horror (Hamlyn, 1977)
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Post by enoch on Jun 1, 2023 2:47:48 GMT
These are all fantastic, and entirely new to me. I mainly know Alan Lee from his marvelous book Castles and his work in Faeries. Thank you so much for posting these. That Second Fontana cover looks like it might be an illustration for "Thurnley Abbey."
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