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

Any book dedicated to the genius of artist Lee Brown Coye is a good thing, but this one stands above some of the others. Nicely done with lots of Coye's work reproduced. He truly was a master of the weird pulp art movement with an unmistakable style. Love Lee Brown Coye!

Um, this is a book filled with black&white ink drawings somewhat macabre or gruesome,some black humor here,some funny scary its kindabla or not that spooky by todays standard o.k. for the old coffee table tho.

If you're having the Manson Family over for coffee!

Excellent collection of the macabre master of the scratchboard's later work, some of it as gruesome as he ever got. Now I'm trying to track down as many old Hugh B. Cave stories as I can...

This focuses on the last years of Coye's life (late 60s to early 80s), reprinting the complete illustrations of many of the books of that era by writers/editors like Hugh B Cave, Manly Wade Wellman and Les Daniels. The writing is largely about people like Robert Weinberg, Les Daniels, Karl Edward Wagner and Stuart David Schiff trying to keep alive and sometimes bring back the contributors to Weird Tales magazine who weren't being published by August Derleth/Arkham House. Derleth had utilized Coye before he died and Coye needed these people for the kind of work he wanted to do and found a larger and maybe more sympathetic audience than he had when he was drawing for Weird Tales. I appreciated the short biographies because I knew very little about Weinberg and Daniels. I found some of the claims a bit exaggerated (I wouldn't consider Schiff that well known in the recent past and although Coye is very morbid, a lot of the writing seems to describe something even darker than he is) but I do agree that Coye might have been the greatest artist to come out the pulps and his vision was a great deal stronger than even a lot of the most celebrated horror artists. What I appreciate most is the very late scratchy drawings, I don't think I had seen any of these and several of them are previously unpublished. I think it might be among his best work and I'm not sure how much this was a chosen direction for him and how much it was him struggling with his ill health, it is said he needed to relearn how to draw. 75 isn't so bad an age to die but I wish he got longer to explore this scratchy look.This is a nice addition to Arts Unknown, most of us will never find or afford A Retrospective.

Very badly trimmed paper edges, very uneven. Artwork is great although a little tame compared to today's standards.