Re: The Last Hieroglyph has arrived!
Posted by:
jdworth (IP Logged)
Date: 20 October, 2011 10:48PM
Radovarl Wrote:
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> Yeah, but as I recall HPL never had a WT cover
> while he was living. So whichever stories (which
> I've undoubtedly not read unless perhaps they were
> Conan or CAS efforts) the covers were for weren't
> relevant to his work... In any case, I kinda like
> Brundage's nudes :).
Well, there were those nude, orgiastic rites, of course, and the ghouls were nude....
As for HPL and WT covers... I'm going entirely on memory here, but as I recall, he did at least get one cover... but it was for the Canadian or British release of that particular issue, not the American printing.....
On Brundage's nudes (and WT covers in general)... for what they are, some of them are quite good; certainly they have a kitschy attraction to them; and, on a somewhat facetious note... given that her models were her daughters (at least according to the sources I've seen), de Camp's phrase "the shapely Misses Brundage" was not terribly far off....