As I used up my review material yesterday, here’s a cover-art post. Gervasio Gallardo was one of the talented artists who worked on the Ballantine Adult Fantasy line of paperbacks. I love his work, for example the cover for George MacDonald’s Lilith.
Or the spectacular sinking-of-Atlantis cover of Poseidonis.
Or bringing the pretty for William Morris’ Water of the Wondrous Isles.
For horror we have several Lovecraft covers such as this one here (though technically the stories are Derleth mimicking Lovecraft).
And for a more fantastical mood, there’s Lovecraft’s Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.
As Clark Ashton Smith’s Xiccarph is a more alien setting than Poseidonis, a somewhat weirder, more alien cover.
This post has no purpose other than to say how much I love Gallardo’s art and to show you why. All rights to all images reside with current holder.






for someone to do covers as lovely and strange as these today – it’d make me very happy
Oh, me too.
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