A Not At Night gallery

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As mentioned elsewhere, at least 102 of the 170 storied featured in the Not At Night books first/ also [delete as applicable] appeared in Weird Tales where many as not were illustrated by some of the day's most brilliant and, possibly, not-so-brilliant artists. Time for a gallery. Here's a start and will drift up more over coming week.

Seabury Quinn- The Curse Of The House Of Phipps (At Dead Of Night, 1931)

C.C. Senf (Weird Tales, Jan. 1930)

Frank Belknap Long - The Red Fetish (Switch On The Light, 1931)

C. C. Senf (Weird Tales, Jan 1930)

Oscar Cook - Piecemeal (By Daylight Only, 1929)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Feb 1930)

Bassett Morgan - The Devils Of Po Sung (By Daylight Only, 1929)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Dec. 1927)

Arthur Woodward - Lord Of The Talking Heads (Grim Death, 1932)

Joseph Doolin (Weird Tales, Dec 1931)

Clark Ashton Smith - Isle Of The Torturers (Keep On The Light, 1933)

Jayem Wilcox (Weird Tales, March 1933)

Merle Prout - House Of The Worm (Terror By Night, 1934)

Uncredited (Weird Tales, Oct. 1933)

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Hugh Rankin, master of grease pencil magic.

R. Anthony (Anthony Rud) - The Witch- Baiter (By Daylight Only, 1929)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Dec. 1927)

G. Fielding Elliot - The Copper Bowl (By Daylight Only, 1929)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Dec. 1928)

Arthur J. Burks - Bells Of Oceana (By Daylight Only, 1929)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Dec. 1927)

William J. Hickey - The Cave Of Spiders (By Daylight Only, 1929)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Nov. 1928)

[helrunar]

These are superb. I'm having fun imagining the stories, especially "'You understand now,' purred the Mandarin."  Yikes!

Really beautiful work.  Once again, I'm learning about fabulous art thanks to that infamous lair of horror and hideousness, that abominable den of all that is vile and venomous, that veritable shrine to decadence and depravity... THE VAULT... OF.... EEEEEVIL!!!!

cackling,

Helrunar the Mad Librarian of the Lost Atlantis

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Nov 14, 2016 16:13:56 GMT helrunar said:

These are superb. I'm having fun imagining the stories, especially "'You understand now,' purred the Mandarin."  Yikes!

The illustration is subtle when compared with the story which is fabulously disgusting! Glad you're enjoying 'em!

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Hugh B. Cave - The Cult Of The White Ape (Keep On The Light, 1933)

Jayem Wilcox (Weird Tales, Feb. 1933)

Oscar Cook - The Sacred Jars [aka 'When Glister Walked'] (Gruesome Cargoes, 1928)

G. O. Olinick (Weird Tales, March 1927)

Flavia Richardson - Out Of The Earth (You'll Need A Nightlight, 1927)

G. O. Olinick (Weird Tales, April 1927)

Amelia Reynolds Long - The Thought Monster(Switch On The Light, 1931)

C. C. Senf (Weird Tales, March 1930)

Oscar Schisgall - In Kashla's Garden (By Daylight Only, 1929)

C. C. Senf (Weird Tales, May 1927)

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Maurice Level - Night And Silence (Grim Death, 1932)

Joseph Doolin (Weird Tales, Feb 1932)

H. P. Lovecraft - The Rats In The Walls (Switch On The Light, 1931)

Uncredited, (Weird Tales, March 1924)

Charles Henry MacKintosh - Guardian Of The Guavas (At Dead Of Night, 1931)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Sept. 1930)

John Dwight - The Fates(By Daylight Only, 1929)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Sept. 1928)

David H. Keller - The Dead Woman (Nightmare By Daylight, 1936)

(Rudolph Belarski ?) (Strange Stories, April 1939. Originally appeared in Fantasy Magazine, April 1934).

Robert E. Howard - The Black Stone (Grim Death, 1932)

Joseph Doolin (Weird Tales, Nov. 1931)

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Everil Worrell - The Gray Killer (At Dead Of Night, 1931)

C.C. Senf (Weird Tales, Nov., 1929)

H. P. Lovecraft - Pickman's Model (By Daylight Only, 1929)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, October 1927)

Henry S. Whitehead - The Chadbourne Episode (Keep On The Light, 1933)

Jayem Wilcox (Weird Tales, Feb. 1933)

Zealia Brown Reed - The Curse of Yig (Switch on the Light, 1931)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, April 1931)

Edmund Snell - The Black Spider (Gruesome Cargoes, 1928)

"The jap thought he could improve on universal laws."(Ghost Stories, Jan. 1927)

C. C. Senf The Gray Killer strikes again!

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Colour supplement!

Hester Holland - Dorner Cordainthus (Grim Death, 1932)

Glenn Stewart (Charles Birkin [ed.], The Tandem Book Of Horror, 1965).

Romeo Poole - The Death Crescents Of Koti (You'll Need A Night Light, 1927)

Uncredited artist, More Not At Night, Arrow, 1961, 1963). Story originally appeared in Weird Tales, July 1926)

Joseph O. Kesselring - King Cobra (Terror By Night, 1934)

Uncredited artist, Still Not At Night, Arrow 1963. Story originally appeared in Weird Tales, Dec. 1933)

C. C. Senf (Weird Tales, Nov. 1929)

C. C. Senf (Weird Tales, Jan. 1930)

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H. P. Lovecraft - The Horror At Red Hook (You'll Need a Nightlight, 1927)

Jon Arfstrom (Weird Tales, March 1952)

On it's original Weird Tales publication (Jan. 1927), The Horror At Red Hook was graced with an illustration by none other than the legendary G. O. Olinick. Have yet to see the results of this juicy collaboration, so if anyone can provide/ direct me to a scan would be very grateful. GOO's had previously provided the artwork for HPL's He (Weird Tales, Sept. 1926) which likewise remains a mystery to me.

Harold Ward - The House of the Living Dead (Grim Death, 1932)

Joseph Doolin (Weird Tales, March 1932)

Hazel Heald - The Horror In The Museum (Terror By Night, 1934)

Jayem Wilcox (Weird Tales, July 1933)

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Paul S. Powers - Monsters Of The Pit (Not At Night, 1925)

Andrews Brosnatch (Weird Tales, June 1925)

Don C. Wiley - The Head Of Wu-Fang (Keep On The Light, 1933)

Jayem Wilcox (Weird Tales, Feb 1933)

Henry S. Whitehead - The Passing Of A God (At Dead Of Night, 1931)

C. C. Senf (Weird Tales, Jan. 1931)

Robert E. Howard - Rogues In The House (Terror By Night, 1934)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Jan. 1934)

Frank Belknap Long - Death Waters (Not At Night, 1925)

Andrew Brosnatch(Weird Tales, Dec. 1924)

With grateful thanks to SSFAudio and PulpCovers without whom this thread would have been so much the poorer.

[helrunar]

"He dropped her with great accuracy into a cesspool" wins my vote for Vault of Evil line of the week.

We're basically living in a giant cesspool with the pols and the media here in the US now so the imagery speaks to me.

cheers, H

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Nov 18, 2016 11:52:09 GMT dem said:

Hazel Heald - The Horror In The Museum (Terror By Night, 1934)

Jayem Wilcox (Weird Tales, July 1933)

I love this story, re-read it often. It is one of the first Mythos stories I ever read and it left a lasting impression. From today's viewpoint, after reading all of Lovecraft and I guess hundreds of new stories, I have to say that it is not a very good story. It strikes me as a blueprint for those typical bad (and good) pastiches. It is quite ironic that HPL himself did a re-write on this, as if he wanted to satirize his own work.

But for all its faults, I still love it.  

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Nov 21, 2016 19:12:47 GMT andydecker said:

I love this story, re-read it often. It is one of the first Mythos stories I ever read and it left a lasting impression. From today's viewpoint, after reading all of Lovecraft and I guess hundreds of new stories, I have to say that it is not a very good story. It strikes me as a blueprint for those typical bad (and good) pastiches. It is quite ironic that HPL himself did a re-write on this, as if he wanted to satirize his own work.

But for all its faults, I still love it.  

Same thing here! Back in the 'eighties, there was this brilliant junk-shop/ off licence on the Isle of Dogs, and once I'd figured out the proprietor was charging less for his second hand paperbacks than the price of a daily newspaper ... that's where the bookaholism started. First twin purchase, Elsie Lee's novelisation of The Masque Of The Red Death and 1st Pan Book Of Horror Stories (severed head edition), the latter likely to blame for subsequent Not At Night fetish. Had read a fair few horror & supernatural tales before, but only as library loans - the idea of hoarding them was the preserve of insane people. The Horror In The Museum made a huge impression. Shortly afterwards, landed a copy of Hamlyn's Best Ghost Stories, a slightly misleading title, that one, which includes Pickman's Model, The Dunwich Horror, The Rats In The Walls and The Music Of Erich Zann. It was difficult not to want to read more HPL after that.

Signe Toksvig - The Devil's Martyr (By Daylight Only, 1929)

C. C. Senf (Weird Tales,June 1928)

H. Warner Munn - The Chain (By Daylight Only, 1929)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Apr. 1928)

R. Anthony - The Parasitic Hand (You'll Need A Nightlight, 1927)

G. O. Olinick (Weird Tales, Nov. 1926)

Robert E. Howard - Worms Of The Earth (Keep On The Light, 1933)

Jayem Wilcox (Weird Tales, Nov. 1932)

Well after the event, but still a beauty.

H. P. Lovecraft - Pickman's Model (Grim Death, 1932)

Hannes Bok (Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Dec. 1951)

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Just these three, all well post-Not At Night, and that's as far as I've got with it for time being.

Bassett Morgan - Tiger Dust (Keep on the Light, 1933)

Pete Kuhlhoff (Weird Tales, Jan. 1954). Tiger Dust originally appeared in Weird Tales, April 1933.

Robert E. Howard - Worms Of The Earth (Keep on the Light, 1933)

Virgil Finlay (Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1953).

Guy Preston - The Inn (Grim Death, 1932)

Chrissie Demant (Vault Of Evil, 2008).

"The inn sign ... was in the nature of a coffin supported by six headless bearers goose-stepping towards a white headstone, and underneath this somewhat forbidding daub with grim irony, the legend 'Ye Journey's End' "

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Oscar Cook - Si Urag Of The Tail (You'll Need a Nightlight, 1927)

Dudley S. Cowes (Fifty Strangest Stories Ever Told, Odhams, 1937: originally illustrated by Ed Whitham, Weird Tales, July 1926. First appearance, Hutchinson's Adventure Story Magazine, January 1923)

Oscar Cook - When Glister Walked (aka The Sacred Jars) Gruesome Cargoes, 1928).

Dudley S. Cowes (Fifty Strangest Stories Ever Told, Odhams, 1937: previously published as The Sacred Jars, Weird Tales, March 1927)