Pulp Macabre - The Art of Lee Brown Coye's Final and Darkest Era

"No other pulp fiction artist working in the 1940s and 1950s created work as twisted and compelling as Lee Brown Coye. In the years after the golden era of American pulp magazines, a tight-knit group of devotees began a campaign to keep the spirit of the Pulps alive, and all of them championed Coye as the unheralded master of macabre artwork. By the 1970s, these young writers and publishers provided Coye with artistic assignments in which he outdid himself - creating lurid Gothic illustrations that were nearly all exclusive to rare, privately-published books and fanzines. This streak of lesser-known, outstanding creations cements the notion that Coye's commercial work is, like that of Poe and Lovecraft, deeply personal and obsessive. Lee Brown Coye's late masterpieces are accompanied by interviews, quotes, and rare articles detailing the small group of independent publishers, writers, and family members who fathered and witnessed the gruesome Pulp revival movement of the 1970s, including testimonials from Gahan Wilson, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Bloch and more.

With nearly 100 gloriously rendered Coye-penned images, 'Pulp Macabre' showcases the art of Coye's final and darkest era."

Title: Pulp Macabre - The Art of Lee Brown Coye's Final and Darkest Era

Author: Mike Hunchback and Caleb Braaten

Genre: Non-Fiction

Condition: New