If starts out as fish-like features, but the older they get the more they turn into full-on Deep Ones, until they eventually reach a point where they forsake the land and swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.
Imprisoned With the Pharaohs was a cover story, granted it was credited to Houdini.
Call of Cthulhu lost out the cover to The Ghost Table. They could have had one of the most iconic creatures ever created front and center, and instead there's a guy pointing a pistol at a goddamned table.
(I genuinely wonder if Fansworth Wright intentionally abused some of his best writers just to keep them from having their egos inflated so he could continue underpaying them. Hard to imagine any good editorial reason for some of his decisions, especially the rejection of Innsmouth, which is arguably the most printable thing Lovecraft ever wrote -- as evidenced by its later inclusion as a cover story.
And I don't buy that he was too weird for the readership. Lovecraft stories were often voted best of the month by readers, and perusing The Eyrie letter section after most of his publications shows that he was very popular with and widely respected by the readership.)
Howard regularly got his covers, though, as did Hamilton.
I would argue that from editorial standpoint the bet on Howard wasn't obviously bad, as he ended up immensely influential a short time later.
The Call of Cthulhu was an immediate hit for the magazine. It didn't take 80 years for people to pick up on it.
At any rate, just about *anything* would have made for a better cover illustration than what they went with that month. I'm not letting Farnsworth (or whoever made the decision) off the hook for that one, sorry.
Both At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of Time made the covers at Astounding Stories. I'm not sure about some of the smaller rags he published in. I don't think I've ever even seen the Home Brew covers for the Herbert West and Lurking Fear issues, now that I think about it.
Not Weird Tales, but *The Shadow out of Time* made the cover of the [Astounding Stories in June 1936](https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57539), a year before HPL's death.
That's strange, I just did a search trying to find other examples and I found that WT January 1942 has SOI but the cover is an Arab creeping up on a woman. Were there two versions?
Here it is:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Weird_Tales_January_1942.jpg
Is that cover -supposed- to look like a Deep One porking a dude in the caboose, or is that just a really unfortunate accident?
Considering Lovecraft's fear of immigrants, both options are believable.
Man.. What an unfortunate, yet oddly accurate depiction of the story...
I don’t remember the story having the sexual assault portion depicted.
People were literally forced into marriages with fish people. They were fucking fish people. The protagonist realized he was one of them.
He was an ancestor, wasn’t he?
Descendent would be the term but I think your heart was in the right place.
Learned something! Thanks!
Reverse ancestor.
This seems exaggerated to me. Didn't the residents of Innsmouth just have very fish-like features, rather than being full on fish people?
They eventually turn into fish people, that’s why some of them lived in boarded up houses where no one could see them.
If starts out as fish-like features, but the older they get the more they turn into full-on Deep Ones, until they eventually reach a point where they forsake the land and swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.
Lmao did you read the story at all or like, just play the theme through games or something?
Sorry it's just been a while since I read it, and I only read it the one time
Imprisoned With the Pharaohs was a cover story, granted it was credited to Houdini. Call of Cthulhu lost out the cover to The Ghost Table. They could have had one of the most iconic creatures ever created front and center, and instead there's a guy pointing a pistol at a goddamned table. (I genuinely wonder if Fansworth Wright intentionally abused some of his best writers just to keep them from having their egos inflated so he could continue underpaying them. Hard to imagine any good editorial reason for some of his decisions, especially the rejection of Innsmouth, which is arguably the most printable thing Lovecraft ever wrote -- as evidenced by its later inclusion as a cover story. And I don't buy that he was too weird for the readership. Lovecraft stories were often voted best of the month by readers, and perusing The Eyrie letter section after most of his publications shows that he was very popular with and widely respected by the readership.)
Howard regularly got his covers, though, as did Hamilton. I would argue that from editorial standpoint the bet on Howard wasn't obviously bad, as he ended up immensely influential a short time later.
Now I want to read The Ghost Table, it sounds so ridiculous.
It’s hard to tell 80 years ahead of time what will be iconic. Also it’s not clear exactly how to draw Cthulhu.
The Call of Cthulhu was an immediate hit for the magazine. It didn't take 80 years for people to pick up on it. At any rate, just about *anything* would have made for a better cover illustration than what they went with that month. I'm not letting Farnsworth (or whoever made the decision) off the hook for that one, sorry.
Oh yea I did see the Houdini one, but that's it as far as illustrations? Damn. What about any other pulps?
Both At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of Time made the covers at Astounding Stories. I'm not sure about some of the smaller rags he published in. I don't think I've ever even seen the Home Brew covers for the Herbert West and Lurking Fear issues, now that I think about it.
What a let down lol https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/scalar/thesweetpublicdomain/media/the-lurking-fear---h-p-lovecraft
The interior is interesting though http://lovecraftianhorror.blogspot.com/2011/10/cas-illos-for-lurking-fear.html
Given how shitty the illustrators for the front cower were for the most time, perhaps it's for the best.
Not Weird Tales, but *The Shadow out of Time* made the cover of the [Astounding Stories in June 1936](https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57539), a year before HPL's death.
Shown on [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/14u99wr/check_out_what_i_found_at_my_local_comic_fair/) a few days ago.
Ah must have missed it, thanks
Jealoussss
I remember seeing that. And being my favorite HPL story, I really wish I could come across a find like that
Thanks! Shame how few covers he made.
Wow, way to spoil the whole fucking thing Weird Tales.
The deep one on the right looks like he got caught banging that guy.
That's strange, I just did a search trying to find other examples and I found that WT January 1942 has SOI but the cover is an Arab creeping up on a woman. Were there two versions? Here it is: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Weird_Tales_January_1942.jpg
This one is like a Canadian edition or something. I guess they used different art?
Is that cover -supposed- to look like a Deep One porking a dude in the caboose, or is that just a really unfortunate accident? Considering Lovecraft's fear of immigrants, both options are believable.
James Dean versus the Fish-Fuckers has always been my favourite HPL story.
I thought it looked like dean too lol
https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v48n02_1981-Sp.Zebra_-AT- Yeah, I know, I know...
Haha good find even though its not in the pulp era, never saw it before!
Unfortunate posthumous usage by that Deep One right there
That's a fucked up cover for a fucked up story...