Tom Adams’ macabre, surreal, and unsettling covers for classic crime novels
Tom Adams is an artist best-known for his cover artwork for books by Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Kingsley Amis, and John Fowles during the 1960s…
Books Archives: 05/2018
The Devil’s in the brushstroke: Lurid paintings of monsters, nightmares & demons for Mexican pulps
We have their paintings, their names, and that’s about it. Araujo, Dorantes, Fzavala, Marin, Pérez, Luna, and Ortiz. Many more just disappeared or have been…
Cool lobby cards from 1960s cult spy flick ‘A Dandy in Aspic’
By way of an introduction to this selection of lobby cards from the spy thriller A Dandy in Aspic, let me tell you something about…
Meet the priest who was Oscar Wilde’s lover and partly the basis for ‘Dorian Gray’
The writer Max Frisch once wrote that an author does nothing worse than betray himself. In that, a work of fiction reveals more of a…