Karel Thole (1914 - 2000)

Included here is a sample of the hundreds of fantastical covers that Karel Thole created through out his life. I'll be sharing a selection of covers that Thole created for the Science Fiction publication "Urania" and the horror publication "Vampir-Horror-Roman" over the next week.

I originally shared the work of Karel Thole back in 2006.

Lovecraft related covers found at Dime Web. 

Wah Ming Chang - Outer Limits Footage, 1963-65

Projects Monsters from the films of Wah Ming Chang on Vimeo.

Found thanks to Cave Evil.

Yōji Kuri - The Midnight Parasites, 1972

Yōji Kuri - The Midnight Parasites, 1972 from Aeron Alfrey on Vimeo.

A brief page on Yōji  Kuri can be found on Wikipedia.

Ian Miller

Theodor von Holst - Fantasy Based on Goethe’s ‘Faust’ 1834

Artworks found at The Tate collection of British art.

Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735 - 1811)

Artworks found at The Tate collection of British art.

Joseph Mugnaini (1912 - 1992)

Joseph Mugnaini - Cover illustration from "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury,  1972

Mr. Moundshroud, illustration from "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury, 1972

Mr. Moundshroud, interior art for ''The Halloween Tree" 1972

Mr. Moundshroud, version 2, interior art for ''The Halloween Tree" 1972

Illustration from "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury, 1972

Witch illustration from "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury, 1972

House illustration from "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury, 1972

The Halloween Kite, illustration from "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury, 1972

The Halloween Kite, 1981

"The October Country" by Ray Bradbury, 1955

Paul F. Berdanier - The Witches' Sabbath a la Mode, 1935

Artwork found at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Alan Odle (1888–1948)

The Crucial Incision, illustration from "Candide" by Voltaire, 1922

The Illness of Candide in Paris, illustration from "Candide" by Voltaire, 1922

Oreillon Reception, illustration from "Candide" by Voltaire, 1922



The Malicious Satyr




Illustration from the magazine "The Gypsy," 1915


Illustration from the magazine "The Gypsy," 1915
 

"Alan Elsden Odle was an English illustrator, remembered today as the husband of the English novelist Dorothy Richardson, whom he married in 1917.  His grotesque and subversive style was a precursor of surrealism. He illustrated an English edition of Voltaire's Candide (G. Routledge, 1922), Mark Twain's 1601: A Tudor Fireside Conversation, a salute to scatology and Elizabethan manners (London: Printed for Subscribers only, 1936), and The Mimiambs of Herondas.  He also designed the dust jacket for James Hanley's Ebb and Flow (London: John Lane, 1932), other Hanley novels for Lane, and Dorothy Richardson's Backwater (1916).  He contributed to a number of periodicals such as The Gypsy, The Golden Hind (1922–25), the US Vanity Fair, The Studio, and the UK Argosy.

Odle was a distinctly bohemian figure and he associated with an artistic circle that included Augustus John, Jacob Epstein, and Wyndham Lewis. When he married Dorothy Richardson he was tubercular and an alcoholic, and was not expected to live long. However, he stopped drinking and lived until 1948. Odle was very thin and "over six feet tall with waist-length hair wound around the outside of his head", which he never cut. He also rarely cut his fingernails. From 1917 until 1939, the couple spent their winters in Cornwall and their summers in London; and then stayed permanently in Cornwall until Odle’s death in 1948. Richardson supported herself and her husband with freelance writing for periodicals for many years, as Alan made little money from his art." - quote source


Artworks found at Victor Arwas Gallery, Radnorshire Fine Arts Ltd and alanodle.com

Claude Gillot (1673 - 1722)

Wandering at Night
 Is It an Enchantment

The Feast of Bacchus
 Feast of Pan
 Feast of Diana
 Passion for Gambling
 Passion for Wealth
 Passion for Love
 Passion for War
 Festival of the God Pan