I made this desktop wallpaper for my new computer’s desktop – that’s what I did yesterday instead of actually unpacking and setting up the computer itself. Click through to get the full size version. The images were drawn by Neil Austin for issues of Famous Fantastic Mysteries from 1947 to 1950.
Pictured are H.P. Lovecraft, A. Merritt, Robert W. Chambers, Sydney Fowler Wright, Algernon Blackwood, H.G. Wells, Stephen Vincent Benét, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Machen, M.P. Shiel, John Taine, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Olaf Stapledon, and M.R. James.
Posted by Jesse Willis
They forgot a few. Like Mary Shelley, Guy de Maupassant, Henry James and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Agreed, there definitely should have been more masters included. Funny thing is I still haven’t read many of the authors listed at all.
Do you have the large version of his Edgar Allan Poe drawing? I am looking for a copy of it for a tattoo in memory of my father. Edgar Allan Poe was his favorite author in this series so it only makes sense.