The Art of Pulp Horror: An Illustrated History

This is the third illustrated horror art book edited by Stephen Jones that I have bought via Amazon. All three are superbly researched with excellently reproduced art work and informative text .Can't praise all three of these books enough and can't wait for the next one !

A nice large selection of paintings & graphics from the pulp-ish world of exploitational. media. I was a bit surprised to see as much space devoted to sensational movie poster art - as I usually associate the term ‘pulp’ more with printed materials. Regardless, I’m a fan of pretty much all exploitation art so I didn’t see this as a problem. Other reviewers have noted the small size of some of the images as a negative. I can appreciate the trade-off between providing a large sampling of images and the size of the reproduction being limited by the page count/cost of production,. The quality of the reproduction is excellent so that even tho SOME of the pictures are on the small size I appreciate the quantity of visual material. I personally would question the selection of some of the paintings that did get large reproduction. Generally I think this is a great compendium of weird sensational art and would imagine that people who enjoy such would treasure this book!

Very interesting story and background of horror pulp art accompanied with amazing graphics and art, definitely a must have for fanatics of this topic and pulp art in general. The quality of the book A1. :)

Complet et très bien illustré. Dommage qu'il soit uniquement en anglais.

While the collection is wonderful and the Pulp illustrators well-chosen, I feel the biggest weakness of this collection is the layout. The illustrations are bright and highly skillful, but woefully small. They would have done better if each page featured one or two works, not multiples. A better book on this subject is Robert Lesser's Pulp Art by Sterling Publishing, 2005, simply for this reason. What good is it to place several images on a page, when you cannot really appreciate them as paintings with incandescent color, strong brush-work, and riveting compositions? In this case, less would have definitely have been more.