Vintage German Advertisement Cards

Lahusen's Tonic's (Iron-Iodine-Liver Oil) Sinbad the Sailor c1900

Kalodont Dental Cream "The Fisherman & The Genie" (Arabian Nights story) c1900

Lahusen's Tonic's (Iron-Iodine-Liver Oil) Sinbad the Sailor c1900

Artworks found thanks to cigcardpix. While I think that I stumbled onto the only few illustrations in his collection that are monster related, he has one of the most impressive high resolution collections of vintage advertisement trade card art around, see more of it here.

V. Britvin - Sinbad the Sailor

Artworks found at Book Graphics.

Boleslaw Biegas

The Third Vampire Metamorphosis, 1916 - 1917

The Vampire In The Form Of Allied, 1915 - 1916

The Vampire In The Form Of The Dragon, 1917

The Vampire In The Form Of Tura, 1916 - 1917

The Vampire In The Form Of The Serpent, 1916 - 1917

The Vampire In The Form Of The Elephant, 1915 - 1916

The Fight With The Vampire, 1915 - 1916

The Second Metamorphosis Vampire, 1917 - 1918

The Vampire In The Form Of Polyp, 1916

The First Metamorphosis Vampire, 1917

Vampire Suyene, 1917

Kiss of the Vampire, 1916

Humanity's Victory Over The Vampires, 1918

Ironic Fight Vampires, 1915 - 1916

Title Unknown

Vampire In The Form Of A Grasshopper, 1914

Vampire War Dance, 1918

Family Tree of Adam and Eve, 1918 - 1920

Kobyla Winged, 1918 - 1920

Vampire Appearing In The Form of an Explosion, 1916

Vampire Resting On The Cannon Barrel, 1916

The Vampire In The Form Of The Demon, 1917

The Glorious Vampire, 1916



All artworks originate from private collections.

Polish surrealist Boleslaw Biegas created many artworks in paint and in sculpture. It was, of course, his series of fantastically bizarre vampire themed paintings that appealed to me the most. Where the traditional depictions of vampires portray humanoid bat like creatures, Biegas carried through a wild bestiary of intepretations.. insect vampires, winged camel vampires, elephant vampires, and so on.

Many thanks to Krzysztof from the Boleslaw Biegas website for providing these larger versions of the artworks! See more Biegas artwork at the site.

Peter Croy

Charon, 1975

Metamorphosis, 1976

Artworks found at The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus.

Jo de Meester - The Wonderful Journey Of A Christmas Tree

Illustrations from The Belgian Christmas book "The Wonderful Journey Of A Christmas Tree" dated 1943 by author Joseph C. Boon.

Artworks found thanks to Arthur van Kruining.

Trenton Doyle Hancock

"Hancock's cast of characters is a rogue's gallery: some are headless lumps and others look more like animals than human beings, with a walrus, four-eyed rooster, and other mutants. These creatures are part of an ongoing saga that Hancock has been telling for the past decade. He calls them "Mounds"-plant-animal hybrids that behave like all of us, sometimes admirably and sometimes badly. Hancock's homegrown mythology includes a creation story, an epic battle between good and evil, an attempt at reconciliation between color-loving carnivores and scrawny, subterranean vegans, and much more." - Quote source regarding another artwork by Trenton.

More of Trenton's art can be seen at the James Cohan Gallery.

Trenton Doyle Hancock was previously mentioned on Monster Brains in 2006.

Walton Ford - It Makes Me Think of That Awful Day

Gigantic painting of King Kong from Walton's new trio of paintings titled "I Don’t Like to Look at Him, Jack. It Makes Me Think of that Awful Day on the Island."

See the other two paintings in their exhibition space at Arrested Motion.



“I was reading the script of the original movie,” Mr. Ford said at the gallery the next day, “when I realized, when Fay Wray says this, ‘I don’t like to look at him, Jack. It makes me think of that awful day on the island,’ that was the best day for King Kong, that was the best day he ever had. He had his best girl. He undressed her, he saved her from a tyrannosaurus, he climbs up Skull Mountain with her, he had this wonderful day and he has this beautiful plaything. The worst day of her life was the best day of his and you can’t have a worse stalker disconnect than the one between Kong and Fay Wray.” - Walton Ford

Artist in the studio picture and quote found at Gallerist NY.

Top image found thanks to Sarcoptiform.

On the subject of King Kong, I have an epic assortment of images, many high resolution scans of concept art and film stills from the original film, going on Monster Brains early next year.

George Barr - Cover Illustration For "Elidor" by Alan Garner, 1965

Domenico Gnoli - Modern Bestiary, 1968

Scans originally provided by Mr H of the gone but not forgotten Giornale Nuovo.

Limited Edition Of Grimscribe Prints Now For Sale

Available now is a limited run of 100 prints of the cover artwork that I made for Thomas Ligotti's Grimscribe: His Lives and Works, published by Subterranean Press.

See further details here.