Terror ! - A History Of Horror Illustrations From The Pulp Magazines
A Pictorial History Of Horror Stories
The Art Of Horror Stories
(1976 - Souvenir Press) 
(by Peter Haining) They're all the same book. Almost all editions of this book want to sell themselves as overviews of the horror pulps, but they would be stretching the characterization beyond what most of us would define as 'pulp'. Indeed, there are three whole chapters showing all the earlier iterations of horror publications, up through Victorian/Edwardian times, before the next one finally gets to the actual beginning of what we call the Pulp Era. The book's chapters look like this: Gothic Chapbooks And Shilling Shockers, Penny Bloods And Penny Dreadfuls, Victorian Sensational Fiction, The Pulp Explosion, The Legendary 'Weird Tales', The Masters Of Horror, and A Dying Tradition?. I have to say that the earlier examples chosen are still quite striking and provide a worthy contribution to what, overall, is a volume packed with art. Know that the majority of the works are the engravings & drawings found as interior art of these publications. Yes, there are a small number of color cover reproductions, but disappointingly, there are probably more of those cover images presented in black-&-white. Discounting those, you still find 152 pages of this 176-page book dominated by art, 91 of those sporting some large reproduction spanning the page. So, again, drawings take the day in this volume. The captions are narrative in nature, identifying the artist where possible, while describing the subject and where it appeared. The artists 'well-presented' within are: Jon Arfstrom, Hannes Bok (2), Margaret Brundage*, Mary Byfield (2), Ralph Carlson, Edd Cartier (2)***, André Castaigne, Ronald Clyne, Lee Brown Coye (6), Harold DeLay (2), Boris Dolgov (3), Joseph Eberle (2), Virgil Finlay (9), Matt Fox, Robert Fuqua, John Giunta (2), Maurice Gruffenhagen, John Newton Howitt, Fred Humiston, JPD, Alexander Leydenfrost, Clifford McClish, Leo Morey, Gray Morrow, Stockton Mulford, Frank R. Paul, Harold Piffard, Howard Pyle, Harold Rayner, Alex Schomberg**, Amos Sewell (3), S. Sharpe, J. Allen St. John**, Lawrence Sterne Stevens (12), Leo Summers, A.R. Tilburne, Bill Wayne, Irwin J. Weill, N.C. Wyeth, and UNKNOWN (8).
* - Note that Brundage's 'well-presented' piece here can be found better so in her own collection on The List.
** - Note that St. John & Schomberg's 'well-presented' drawings here cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.
*** - Note that in regards to the 'well-presented' drawings here by Cartier, one, but not all, can additionally be found so in his collection on The List.
other Peter Haining books
The Classic Era Of American Pulp Magazines
other Fantasy Art collections
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) artwork collections
Collectors Press's Fantasy & Horror art collections
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