Pre-war horror, ghost, spicy & weird menace pulp artists

[dem bones]

Paul Orban (?)

Weird Pulps:

Weird Tales, Strange Tales, Strange Stories, Not At Night, Creeps, etc.

Heitman: see Best of Weird Tales 1923

Andrew Brosnatch

G. O. Olinick

C. C. Senf

Hugh Rankin. Also P. E. N..

See also A Not at Night Gallery

Eliza Pyke

Creeps

Nat Long

Philip Simmonds

A Creeps Gallery

Ghost Stories

Clare Angell

Jean Oldham

Doris Stanley

Dalton Stevens

Page Trotter

Weird Menace/ the Sex & Sadism pulps

Terror Tales, Horror Stories, Dime Mystery, Uncanny Tales, Sinister Stories, etc.


Amos Sewell. See also Strange Tales of Mystery & Terror

Ralph Carlson

John Drew

John Newton Howitt

Alex Schomburg


Culture Publishing

Spicy Mystery, Spicy Adventure, Spicy Detective, Spicy Western, & Co.

Harry Lemon Parkhurst

Max Plaisted

Joseph Sokoli

Frank Volp

Thanks to David Saunders of Pulp Artists for his invaluable help in putting names to pictures. And, of course, to all the pulp scanners, without whose efforts this section would not have been possible.

[andydecker]

Thanks for the enormous amount of work you did. It is a neglected field, and a lot of these illustrations are very well done.

I guess you could write a master thesis about this artwork and the times they were published. It is quite astonishing how open it sometimes is in the Shudder Pulps, especially if you compare it with the later illustrations in the Men's Adventure Magazines after the war.

Or you can just enjoy it.

[dem bones]

Thanks, Andreas. There's much enjoyment - and plenty of head-scratching - to be had trying to work out who did what? For the most part, I prefer to concentrate on the less celebrated painters and line artists of the 20s & 30s, some only known by a single initial or unintelligible signature. Hope to drift up similar threads over coming weeks.