Not Pulp Covers
and Other Things that are Not Pulp Covers
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Showing posts tagged Fantasy
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The Shape Changer
The hazards of temptation are potently portrayed in this exotic illustration by fantasy mistress, Rowena Morrill. This cover graced Keith Laumer’s novel, The Shape Changer. In that novel, Sir Lafayette Leary, a rich noble, finds out that he has developed a dubious reputation, and meets the man responsible — the other Lafayette Leary, a stranger with his face who wants to see him dead. No sooner does a bold adventurer approach a bound beauty, than the floor gives way from beneath him
In The Art of Rowena, the artist wrote, “I love the humor in this scene. Obviously the lady is a trap for the hero. I found it an entertaining twist on the classic theme of a hero coming to rescue a maiden in distress.”
(Source: comics.ha.com)
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Cheon of Weltanland Book 1: The Four Wishes
Freed from the tyranny of conquerors and the slavery of the ape-people, ward and student of a Hyperborean witch, the girl Cheon was to be granted four wishes. This is what she said: ‘That no man shall again do to me as the Bunnish men and the men of the Dark Place did. That I may grow tall and strong and skilled in the use of weapons, that I may slay men as I please. That I may be a witch skilled in sorcery, yet beautiful like the dawn. That I may be a queen as my father promised me — the queen of the Northlands.’
(Source: comics.ha.com)
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Ken Barr, Video game box art, 1986
This work was also featured in Ken Barr’s card set, The Beast Within, as card #69
(Source: fineart.ha.com)
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