Pick Your Favorite Arkham House Cover
Anybody who knows me knows that I’m a huge fan of Arkham House books. It was the fiction that captured my interest but it is their cover art that keeps me infatuated with collecting their titles.
Nearly every Arkham House cover art is artistically interesting and often times downright creepy. Here are a few of my favorites.
Take the poll below and let us know your favorite of the covers shown.
(Cover artist Virgil Finlay)
(Cover artist Lee Brown Coye)
(Cover artist Lee Brown Coye)
(Cover artist Richard Taylor)
(Cover artist Richard Taylor)
(Cover artist Richard Taylor)
January 21, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Well, this was a difficult one. They are all such good covers, and I am especially fond of Lee Brown Coye — I believe that Centipede Press is thinking of issuing an art book full of Coye artwork, but such ain’t listed in ye new catalog what I picked up at MythosCon. In ye end I chose DREAMS AND FANCIES — a book I found in ye dealer’s room at WFC in San Jose and bought, primarily FOR that splendid cover, although the book has some points of amusement. I love not only Taylor’s fascinating artistic style but the weird fluid lettering with which he presents book titles. Arkham House has long had superb covers. The Raymond Bayless jackets for the Lovecraft titles were fabulous, and what a disappointment for many of us when they were replaced by ye gawd-awful hideous and immature jacket art of Tony Patrick which mar the current editions.
January 22, 2011 at 9:08 am
Virgil Finlay is one of my favorites. Beautiful women drawn by Virgil Finlay – well irresistable.