"Weird Tales" Selections by Peter Haining. Jersey: Neville Spearman, (1976). Jacket Art by Margaret Brundage (March, 1936)
This book presents an anthology of gems selected by Peter Haining from the pages of Weird Tales. The book presents them as facsimile reproductions of the actual pages of the magazine. According to fantasy enthusiasts, Weird Tales was the first and the best of all the fantasy periodicals. It spanned thirty years of publication as a pulp from 1923-1954.
Some of the authors appearing in Haining's anthology are Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Henry S. Whitehead, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Eric Frank Russell, August Derleth, Seabury Quinn, Henry Kuttner, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Bloch, Algernon Blackwood, and nearly every other major figure who contributed to Weird Tales.
Cover artist Margaret Brundage (1900-1976) sold 66 original pulp cover illustrations to Weird Tales from 1933 to 1945. Her covers were signed “M. Brundage” and were very popular with readers, but most of the public wasn’t aware the artist was female. When puritanical social forces complained about the overt sexuality of the art, the editor finally revealed that the artist was a woman, hoping to mollify the perceived offensiveness of her work.
As a woman in a field dominated by men, Brundage brought a unique aesthetic to pulp art. Most of her work was created with pastels on illustration board and often featured fantasy scenes of women trapped in sexually vulnerable situations. Brundage continued to create fantasy scenes in pastels for the rest of her life but was unable to find a steady publisher of her work after the publisher of Weird Tales moved to New York City in 1938. After a divorce from a drunken husband and the death of her only son, Brundage’s later years were spent in relative poverty. Check out the “Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists” for more on Brundage (www.pulpartists.com/Brundage.html).
"Weird Tales" Selections by Peter Haining. Jersey: Neville Spearman, (1976). Jacket Art by Margaret Brundage (March, 1936)
This book presents an anthology of gems selected by Peter Haining from the pages of Weird Tales. The book presents them as facsimile reproductions of the actual pages of the magazine. According to fantasy enthusiasts, Weird Tales was the first and the best of all the fantasy periodicals. It spanned thirty years of publication as a pulp from 1923-1954.
Some of the authors appearing in Haining's anthology are Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Henry S. Whitehead, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Eric Frank Russell, August Derleth, Seabury Quinn, Henry Kuttner, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Bloch, Algernon Blackwood, and nearly every other major figure who contributed to Weird Tales.
Cover artist Margaret Brundage (1900-1976) sold 66 original pulp cover illustrations to Weird Tales from 1933 to 1945. Her covers were signed “M. Brundage” and were very popular with readers, but most of the public wasn’t aware the artist was female. When puritanical social forces complained about the overt sexuality of the art, the editor finally revealed that the artist was a woman, hoping to mollify the perceived offensiveness of her work.
As a woman in a field dominated by men, Brundage brought a unique aesthetic to pulp art. Most of her work was created with pastels on illustration board and often featured fantasy scenes of women trapped in sexually vulnerable situations. Brundage continued to create fantasy scenes in pastels for the rest of her life but was unable to find a steady publisher of her work after the publisher of Weird Tales moved to New York City in 1938. After a divorce from a drunken husband and the death of her only son, Brundage’s later years were spent in relative poverty. Check out the “Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists” for more on Brundage (www.pulpartists.com/Brundage.html).