I couldn't find cover artist info but I think it's a safe guess to posit John Holmes, a British artist whose bizarre illustrations adorned H.P. Lovecraft Ballantine paperbacks around the same time.
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Robert Lory's Horrorscope Series (1974 - 1975)
I couldn't find cover artist info but I think it's a safe guess to posit John Holmes, a British artist whose bizarre illustrations adorned H.P. Lovecraft Ballantine paperbacks around the same time.
I really dig the cover art on these--only because they do seem to promise more books in the series. Although I've never heard of this, it seems like something I would read. Good post.
ReplyDeleteI've read reviews of these books years ago on someone's blog and they deemed them rather bland. Still, fantastic artwork and I love astrological horror. For the sake of those graphic covers, it's a shame the series wasn't completed.
ReplyDeleteI can't find any info anywhere on the Scorpio book in this series - did the author stop after four?
ReplyDeleteYes these were the only ones published.
ReplyDeleteI've got two questions.
ReplyDeleteOn pg. 130 of PAPERBACKS FROM HELL, you mentioned a fifth book in this series, CLAWS OF THE CRAB, that "was never published in America."
My questions are: where was it published - in Europe, or maybe just in the U.K. and Ireland? And do you have a picture or a copy of the front cover? As the saying on TV goes, "Inquiring minds want to know. I want to know."
Again, just a suggestion for future editions of the book.
Check this out: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?635388
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