Pat Calhoun

Murder in a haunted house: calling Dr Fell !

flip side of D-59

Lance Casebeer held summer 'cons' at his house in Portland OR back in the day: made it to a few in early '90s: pb heaven: got my 'Fright' at one...

this is no doubt only part of 'I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes'.

Super congrats to SA on scoring the incredible signed Ray Johnson original cover art painting of a PB classic. (and tip o'hat to Electricmastro whose ID of Green Girl to RJ started the ball rolling back on 11/25/20...)

here's a fave of mine: wonderful novel as well...

bump: found on Hoffman's wiki page. original is a POSTER 46mb several feet either way. download if you have a giant printer or enjoy mousing over pointillist blowups of pb covs...

Some of the early Fantasy Press books, like 'The Forbidden Garden' and 'The Black Flame', are illustrated editions: the perfect enhancement for a classic novel. Here's Donnell interiors from the Weinbaum...

This one, an anthology of old Chinese ghost stories, has wonderful patterned plum-colored boards... (PS- Invisible Links above is by Selma Lagerlof whose intricate descriptions of plant life add exquisite depth to her narratives. A Swede, she was the first woman to win the Nobel Lit prize.)

While most of the books in my hardcover collection have DJs, they are interspersed with those without them: often older books with nice decor on the cloth boards, and those, though fewer in number, do much to lend the whole library an antiquarian look. Here's some from my files with fun stuff on the covers.

Ages ago I let myself be talked into going to see 'Carrie'. I detested it, and years later, after my brother died, I went down to San Diego to decide which books in his collection should be shipped up to me and which should be junked. I came upon his copy of Carrie (upper right) and thought 'toss this monstrosity', then I saw that it was a first edition and quietly slid it to the keep stack.

I have the mag version of Hamilton's 'Sun Smasher': two worthy covers and titles for this enjoyable yarn.

I shall get a 'Seeds of Life'...

sad that #20 was the final issue of the title...here's Tara splash

here's the Wonderman splash for that issue:

With Tara the space pirate and Wonderman's interplanetary adventures (Silver Knight is great too tho' fantasy) late issues of Wonder Comics should qualify.

Our pals at Atlas Tales have a JIUW9 cover story splash: this yarn starts the bonanza with a bang...

Of all the Atlas fantasy-/-horror titles Journey Into Unknown Worlds is rare in that the early issues were predominantly SF. JIUW #9 is cover-to-cover SF: more importantly all 5 stories are fabulous and those jackpot issues are few and far between.

not the same title as Surf's above as it lacks the exclamation point, but trying to make it a 'killer' day here- in the best sense of the word...