Andrew Brosnatch

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(The Eyrie, Weird Tales, (Nov. 1924 - Sept. 1954)

HIs Weird Tales career wasn't the longest but from the November 1924 relauch through to April 1926, Andrew Brosnatch (1896-1965) painted fifteen covers and provided the bulk of the interior illustrations until Joe Doolin, Ed Whitham and G. O. Olinick briefly inherited the mantle, Farnsworth-Wright finally striking gold with Hugh Rankin. Writing in The Weird Tales Story (Fax 1977: Wildside 1999) Robert Weinberg damns Brosnatch with the very faintest of praise while conceding his significance as "the first of a long line of artists each of who was to dominate the interior art of the magazine."

Terence E. Hanley provides a typically excellent biography of the elusive Mr. Brosnatch at Tellers Of Weird Tales

H. P. Lovecraft - The Festival Jan. 1925)

Seabury Quinn - Out Of The Long Ago (Jan. 1925)

Hamilton Craigie - The Man Trap (Nov. 1925).

Gordon Philip England - The Acid In The Laboratory (Nov. 1925)

Frank Belknap Long - The Ocean Leech (Jan. 1925)

Katherine Yates - Under The Hau Tree (Nov. 1925)

Armstrong Livingston - As Obligated (Jan. 1925)

H. P. Lovecraft - The Tomb (Jan, 1926)

Seabury Quinn - The Isle Of Missing Ships (Feb, 1926)

Arthur Leeds - Return Of The Undead (Nov. 1925)

H. G. Wells - The Stolen Body (Nov. 1925)

Thanks (again) to SFFAudio without whom this page would be virtually illustration free.

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"An early illustrator for Weird Tales magazine, Brosnatch (1896-?) illustrated many famous fantasy and horror stories in the 1920s and proved to be unequal to the task. His mediocre covers were surpassed only by his equally terrible interior illustrations. Brosnatch worked for Weird Tales in a period when the magazine was on shaky financial ground and payment to artists was among the lowest of all pulp magazines. He was, according to the editor of the publication, "a bargain artist," that is, one who would work for much less than the going rate for magazine illustrations. But his art was not a bargain at any price. Fortunately, the magazine prospered, and Brosnatch disappear from its pages.

Originally from Pennsylvania, he lived in Indiana during the time he worked for Weird Tales. Once he lost his market for illustration with the magazine, he left the pulp field.

— Robert Weinberg, A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists, Greenwood Press, 1988.

Very harsh on the man. I certainly prefer his work to Heitman's.