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Cover of the August 1942 issue, by Virgil Finlay. Munsey's plan for the magazines was laid out in a note that appeared in the first four issues: "This magazine is the answer to thousands of requests we have received over a period of years, demanding a second look at famous fantasies which, since their original publication, have become accepted classics.
Virgil Finlay (July 23, 1914 – January 18, 1971) was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called "part of the pulp magazine history ... one of the foremost contributors of original and imaginative art work for the most memorable science fiction and fantasy publications of our time."
Swords and Sorcery is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by L. Sprague de Camp and illustrated by Virgil Finlay.It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in 1963, [1] [2] but most of the stories were originally from 1930s pulp magazines.
Charles Coleman Finlay (born July 1, 1964 in New York City, NY) is an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor. He grew up in Marysville, Ohio [1] and attended Ohio State University. His first story, Footnotes, was published in 2001 in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF) where many of his stories have since been ...
The first issue debuted in 2001, [1] and in 2002 the magazine was "rebooted" with new numbering under new editorship. Volume 1 of the current Ideomancer was established in 2002. Chris Clarke and Mikal Trimm, who were on the original Ideomancer editorial team, edited an ebook anthology called Ideomancer Unbound published by Fictionwise [ 2 ] in ...
The dust jacket art was a montage of drawings by Virgil Finlay for Weird Tales magazine, of which only one or two had originally illustrated Lovecraft stories. E. F. Bleiler describes the collection's publication as "the beginning of serious specialist publishing of fantastic fiction in America".
At the end of the war, Finlay worked as a shepherd, before beginning to write short stories and poems, while living on Rousay, in Orkney.He published his first book, The Sea Bed and Other Stories, in 1958, with some of his plays broadcast on the BBC, and some stories featured in The Glasgow Herald.
Finlay was involved as founder and editor of a second magazine called The Lyceum (1889–1994), and with the New Ireland Review and its successor Studies : An Irish Quarterly Review. He founded the Irish Homestead for the co-operative movement, in 1896, and edited it to 1905. [3] He also helped found the Irish Messenger of the Sacred Heart. [10]