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Virgil Finlay "The Iron Star" by John Taine Famous Fantastic Mysteries preliminary art (September 1943) Source
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Virgil Finlay "The Iron Star" by John Taine Famous Fantastic Mysteries preliminary art (September 1943) Source
THE CRYSTAL HORDE by John Taine [aka Eric Temple Bell] (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1952) Cover by Hannes Bok.
Published in an edition of 2,328 copies, the novel is a science horror story that involves silicon crystalline lifeforms threatening to overwhelm carbon life on Earth. It was substantially rewritten from a version that originally appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories Quarterly in 1930 under the title White Lily.
Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1930. Cover by H. Wesso.
WHITE LILY by John Taine. Illustrated by H. Wesso
“The Astounding Enemy” by Louise Rice & Tonjoroff-Roberts. Illustrated by Leo Morey
“Tani of Ekkis” by Aladra Septama. Illustrated by H. Wesso [Severus Masonby]
“Dirigibles of Death” by A. Hyatt Verrill. Illustrated by Leo Morey
Virgil Finlay (1914-1971), ''Famous Fantastic Mysteries'', Vol. 5, #4, 1943 Source
Virgil Finlay (1914-1971), ''Famous Fantastic Mysteries'', Vol. 9, #6, 1948 Source
Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club [Bell, Eric Temple. The Time Stream, The Greatest Adventure, and The Purple Sapphire, 1964] Oil paint on carved wood, 2019
The Greatest Adventure by John Taine, 1929.
EMSH, oh EMSH... that dinosaur is not your best work.
Ace Books D-473: The Greatest Adventure by John Taine, 1960. Cover art attributed to Ed Emshwiller.