{"id":2754,"date":"2008-01-15T01:49:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T01:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2008-07-18T04:48:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T03:48:14","slug":"clark-ashton-smith-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/01\/15\/clark-ashton-smith-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark Ashton Smith book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldritchdark.com\/galleries\/books-of-cas\/133\/lost-worlds-%28vol1%29\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/smith1.jpg\" alt=\"smith1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldritchdark.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eldritch Dark<\/a>, the premier Clark Ashton Smith site, for a while so it&#8217;s good to see they now have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldritchdark.com\/galleries\/books-of-cas\/\" target=\"_blank\">substantial collection<\/a> of CAS covers from books, magazines and fanzines. The ones shown here are further examples of my Panther Books fetishism and were the first CAS titles I came across in the mid-Seventies. The artist is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicorngarden.com\/pennington\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Pennington<\/a> who produced much fine sf and fantasy art during this period and whose spiky, bone-strewn paintings are especially suited to cosmic horror vistas or the more apocalyptic end of the fantasy spectrum. He also painted a couple of Lovecraft-related covers for Panther, hence his inclusion in the forthcoming Lovecraft art book from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centipedepress.com\/hplartbook.html\" target=\"_blank\">Centipede Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldritchdark.com\/galleries\/books-of-cas\/137\/lost-worlds-%28vol2%29\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/smith2.jpg\" alt=\"smith2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Bruce Pennington at ImageNETion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scanraptor.com\/sauvignon\/bpennington1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">I<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webagora.com.br\/1\/bpennington2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">II<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umtoquedearte.com\/1\/bpennington3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">III<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagenetion.net\/matrix\/bpennington4.htm\" target=\"_blank\">IV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-book-covers-archive\/\">The book covers archive<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/01\/10\/witness-my-hand-and-official-seal\/\">Witness my hand and official seal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t looked at Eldritch Dark, the premier Clark Ashton Smith site, for a while so it&#8217;s good to see they now have a substantial collection of CAS covers from books, magazines and fanzines. The ones shown here are further examples of my Panther Books fetishism and were the first CAS titles I came across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/01\/15\/clark-ashton-smith-book-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clark Ashton Smith book covers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,42,21,48,26,44,38],"tags":[2783,1279],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","category-lovecraft","category-painting","category-pulp","tag-bruce-pennington","tag-clark-ashton-smith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Iq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","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=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}