{"id":10163,"date":"2011-10-14T02:38:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T01:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=10163"},"modified":"2012-07-13T02:20:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T01:20:50","slug":"virgil-finlays-salome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/10\/14\/virgil-finlays-salome\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil Finlay’s Salom\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While chasing down Virgil Finlay’s illustration for Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space<\/em> earlier this week I came across another Finlay drawing I’d not noticed before in a book I’ve owned for years. Makes me wonder what else is lurking on the shelves. Finlay’s depiction of Salom\u00e9 was an illustration for Waxworks<\/em>, a story by Robert Bloch published in Weird Tales<\/em> for January 1939. I’ve never read much of Bloch’s fiction, this story included, so can’t say anything about it, but Finlay’s drawing impresses for the solid black night sky, and the peculiar flaming headdress, the kind of unique detail he often added to his pictures.<\/p>\n

Bloch and Finlay had a memorable encounter a couple of years years before when Finlay illustrated The Faceless God<\/em><\/a>, another Weird Tales<\/em> piece which so impressed HP Lovecraft that it inspired a poem, To Mr. Finlay, Upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch’s Tale, ‘The Faceless God’<\/em><\/a>. Lovecraft’s handwritten draft can be seen (but not necessarily read) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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While chasing down Virgil Finlay’s illustration for Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space earlier this week I came across another Finlay drawing I’d not noticed before in a book I’ve owned for years. Makes me wonder what else is lurking on the shelves. Finlay’s depiction of Salom\u00e9 was an illustration for Waxworks, a story by … Continue reading “Virgil Finlay’s Salom\u00e9”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,22,48,43],"tags":[785,2409,1687,1495,1506,1208,1870,1270,1490,2967,123,1309,2602,1895,2396,2784],"class_list":["post-10163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-magazines","tag-alla-nazimova","tag-caroline-smith","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-john-vassos","tag-julius-klinger","tag-manuel-orazi","tag-marcus-behmer","tag-peter-reed","tag-rene-bull","tag-robert-bloch","tag-salome","tag-steven-berkoff","tag-valenti-angelo","tag-virgil-finlay","tag-weird-tales","tag-wilhelm-volz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2DV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}