NewNew Eldritch Tomes, Richard Powers, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber

Anyone who has followed my blogs will know that science fiction and weird tale/horror illustration is an area of real interest to me. I also love the slim horror anthologies and collections that appeared in the 1950's/1960's/1970's. So I could not resist these especially as Bloch and Leiber were part of Lovecraft's circle and fine writers in their own right. I have not been able to identify the cover artist of The Living Demons, isn't it lovely. But the rest are by Richard Powers, in a class by himself yet again. I have provided links below to other posts featuring Powers covers. I also enjoy seeing the advertisements on the back with other titles I might look for. I would love to know which is your favourite cover. Please enjoy. 

  

    

    

Not a new arrival but when I saw Invisible Men included both Basil Davenport as editor and Richard Powers as cover artists I had to include it. 

  

Pervious links to Powers Covers.

https://dunwichhorrors.blogspot.com/2016/04/horror-anthologies-and-art-of-richard.html

https://dunwichhorrors.blogspot.com/2016/05/horror-anthologies-art-of-richard.html

https://dunwichhorrors.blogspot.com/2016/05/horror-anthologies-art-of-richard.html

New Eldritch Tomes, Richard Powers

I have discussed my love of the art of Richard Powers in two earlier posts on this blog as well as my Jagged Orbit blog so I was delighted to find this anthology originally published by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1958.  

Contents: from ISFDB

6 • Introduction (Deals with the Devil) • (1958) • essay by Basil Davenport
11 • Sir Dominick's Bargain • (1872) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
24 • Enoch Soames • (1916) • novelette by Max Beerbohm (variant of Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties)
49 • A Deal with the Devil • [Jorkens] • (1946) • short story by Lord Dunsany
66 • Satan and Sam Shay • (1942) • short story by Robert Arthur
79 • The Devil and Simon Flagg • (1954) • short story by Arthur Porges
86 • The Devil and the Old Man • (1905) • short story by John Masefield
91 • Threshold • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner
106 • Nellthu • (1955) • short story by Anthony Boucher
108 • Threesie • (1956) • short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
116 • Hell-Bent • (1951) • short story by Ford McCormack
134 • The Devil, George, and Rosie • (1934) • novelette by John Collier
152 • The Devil Was Sick • (1951) • short story by Bruce Elliott

Earlier posts

http://dunwichhorrors.blogspot.com/2016/04/horror-anthologies-and-art-of-richard.html

http://dunwichhorrors.blogspot.com/2016/05/horror-anthologies-art-of-richard.html

http://ajaggedorbit.blogspot.com/2015/12/one-of-events-that-propelled-me-from-sf.html

Horror Anthologies, the art of Richard Powers Part 2

Another batch of horror anthologies with covers by Richard Powers. 

Whereas all the Powers covers in the first group were released by Ballantine, this lot features three different publishers.

Br-r-r-!, editor Groff Conklin, Avon, 1959

Intro. Groff Conklin

It by Theodore Sturgeon

Nursery Rhyme by Charles Beaumont

Doomsday Deferred by Murray Leinster

Warm Dark Place by H.L. Gold

Legal Rites by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl

An Egyptian Hornet by Algernon Blackwood

White Goddess by Margaret St. Clair

The Handler by Ray Bradbury

The Sound Machine by Roald Dahl

The Worm by David H. Keller

 Tales of Love and Horror edited by Don Congdon, Ballantine Books, 1961

No Such Thing as a Vampire by Richard Matheson

The Love Letter by Jack Finney

The Horsehair Trunk by Davis Grubb

Lucia's Kiss by Roderick MacLeish

The Sign of Scorpio by Charles Mergendahl

Clay-Shuttered Doors by Helen R. Hull

Various Temptations by William Sansom

The Nature of the Evidence by Mary Sinclair

Tactical Exercise by Evelyn Waugh

The Illustrated Woman by Ray Bradbury

The Shout by Robert Graves

Not Far Away, Not Long Ago by John Collier

Ghosts and Things, edited by Hal Cantor, Berkley Medallion, 1962

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James

Caterpillars by E.F. Benson

Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton

The Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen

The Night-Doings at Deadman's by Ambrose Bierce

Running Wolf by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson

The Music on the Hill by Saki

Phantasy by Oliver Onions

The House by Andre Maurois

The Lovely House by Shirley Jackson

Horror Anthologies, the art of Richard Powers and others

I have been enjoying a series of posts on horror anthologies on https://unsubscribedblog.wordpress.com/ which prodded me to put together a post I have been planning on horror anthologies with cover art by the well known SF illustrator Richard Powers, okay a couple of others slipped in.  I find it interesting that a number of SF writers also appear in these anthologies. Ramsay Campbell notes in the introduction to his collection Cold Print, that he first encountered HPL in the collection Cry Horror, purchased in Bascomb's a sweetshop when he was 14, so this is a good place to start. What better recommendation could you have.

Cover by Emesh

The Phantom-Wooer (poem) by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

The Crawling Horror by Thorp McClusky

The Opener of the Way by Robert Block

Night Gaunts (poem) by H.P. Lovecraft

In Amundsen's Tent by John Martin Leahy

The Thing on the Doorstep by H.P. Lovecraft

The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke

It Will Grow On You by Donald Wander

The Hunters from Beyond by Clark Ashton Smith

The Curse of Yig by  Zealia Bishop and H.P. Lovecraft 

Geregeerd (poem) by Ray H. Zorn

The Cairn on the Headland by Robert Howard

The Trap by Henry S. Whitehead and H.P. Lovecraft 

The Dweller (poem) by H.P. Lovecraft 

Cover by Powers

Sweets to the Sweet by Robert Bloch 

The Strange Children by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

The Likeness of Julie by Richard Matheson

It Will Come to You by Frank Belknap Long

A Gnome There Was by Kutter and Moore

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson

In the Midst of Death by Ben Hecht

Gabriel-Ernest by Saki

Banner's Imp by August Derleth

Enoch by Robert Bloch

For the Blood is the Life by F. Marion Crawford

                                           Cover by Powers

The Claws Exposed (essay) by Whit Burnett and Hallie Burnett

The Birds by Daphne du Maurier

The Cats by T.K. Brown

The Cocoon by John B.L. Goodwin

Baby Buntings by Radcliffe Squires

The Red Rats of Plum Fork by Jesse Stuart

Butch by Oreste F. Pucciani

The Salamander by William B. Seabrook

The Return of the  Griffins A.E. Shandelling

Congo by Stuart Cloete

The Cat Man by Byron Liggett

Cover by Powers

Intro by Conklin

The Screaming Woman by Ray Bradbury

A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce

The Cart by Richard Hughes

The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner

Skin by Roald Dahl

Night Court By Mary Elizabeth Councilman

Free Dirt Charles Beaumont

Listen Children by Charles Beaumont

Special Delivery by John Collier

The Child That Loved a Grave by Fitz-James O'Brien

The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft

The Graveyard Reader by Theodore Sturgeon

Cover by Powers

Sorry, Right Number by Richard Matheson

Share Ailke by Jerome and Joe E. Dean

Talent by Theodore Sturgeon

Listen Children by Charles Beaumont

The Whispering Gallery by William F. Temple

The Piping Death by Robert Moore Williams

The Ghost by A.E. van Voght

Carillon of Skulls by Lester del Rey and James H. Beard

Pile of Trouble by Henry Kuttner

Cover by Jeff Jacks

The Gifts of the Gods by Raymond F. Jones

Turn of a Century by James Blish

Courier of Chaos by Poul Anderson

Mind of Tomorrow by Lester Del Rey

In the Beginning by Damon Knight

little Green Men By Noel Loomis