The Fifth Book of Virgil Finlay

The "Weird Tales" Years

Editor: Gerry de la Ree.
Publisher: Gerry de la Ree.
Country of Publication: United States of America.
Date of publication: 1979.
Format: Hardcover with dustjacket.
Size: Approximately 8.75 x 11.25 inch.
Original price: $15.75.
ISBN: No ISBN number.
Number of copies: 1350 Numbered copies.
Number of illustrations: 124 Illustrations by Virgil Finlay.

Contents:

Drawing on the front of the dust-jacket also appears on page 32. Drawing on the back of the dust-jacket also appears on page 72.


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'The Fifth Book of Virgil Finlay' contains the following illustrations, in the order of appearance.

Page   Title Year   Illustrated a story or poem by
Front Cover   The Thing on the Door Step 1937   H.P. Lovecraft
Frontipiece   The Last Pharaoh (rats) 1937   Thomas P. Kelly
Title Page   (creatures)      
7   Medusa 1935    
8   Loot of the Vampire (necklace) 1936   Thorp McClusky
9   Loot of the Vampire (mirror) 1936   Thorp McClusky
10   The Haunter of the Dark 1936   H.P. Lovecraft
11   Witch-House 1936   Seabury Quinn
12   The Man in Black 1936   Paul Ernst
13   The Crawling Horror 1936   Thorp McClusky
15   The Faceless God 1936   Robert Bloch
16   Out of the Sun 1936   Granville S. Hoss
17   The Woman at Loon Point 1936   August Derleth and Mark Schorer
18   The Tree of Life 1936   Paul Ernst
19   The Opener of the Way 1936   Robert Bloch
20   The Druidic Doom 1936   Robert Bloch
21   Necromancy in Naat 1936   Clark Ashton Smith
22   The Face in the Window 1936   Carl Jacobi
23   The Room of Shadows 1936   Arthur J. Burks
24   Dig Me No Grave 1936   Robert E. Howard
25   Child of the Winds (dancing girl) 1936   Edmond Hamilton
26   The Lost Door 1936   Dorothy Quick
27   Son of Satan 1936   Arlton Eadie
28   In the World's Dusk 1936   Edmond Hamilton
29   A Wine of Wizardry (woman and bats) 1937   George Sterling
30   Psychopompos 1937   H.P. Lovecraft
31   The Horror in the Burying-Ground 1937   Hazel Heald
32   The Thing on the Door Step 1937   H.P. Lovecraft
33   The Shunned House 1937   H.P. Lovecraft
34   Fane of the Black Pharaoh 1937   Robert Bloch
35   The Last Pharaoh (queen) 1937   Thomas P. Kelly
36   The Last Pharaoh (guard) 1937   Thomas P. Kelly
37   The Last Pharaoh (elixer) 1937   Thomas P. Kelly
38   The Guardian of the Book 1937   Henry Hasse
39   The Mandarin's Ear 1937   Frank Owen
40   Satan's Palimpsest 1937   Seabury Quinn
41   The Ho-Ho-Kam Horror 1937   Bruce Bryan
42   The Secret of Sebek 1937   Robert Bloch
43   Children of the Bat 1937   Seabury Quinn
44   Dr. Du Grandin 1937   Seabury Quinn
44   Dr. Trowbridge 1937   Seabury Quinn
45   The Living Buddhess 1937   Seabury Quinn
46   The Black Stone Statue 1937   Mary Elizabeth Counselman
47   Return to Earth 1937   William Knapp Jones
48   The Death of Ilalotha 1937   Clark Ashton Smith
49   The Black Kiss 1937   Henry Kuttner and Robert Bloch
50   The Lake of Life (soldiers) 1937   Edmond Hamilton
51   The Lake of Life (woman dancing) 1937   Edmond Hamilton
52   World of Dark Dwellers 1937   Edmond Hamilton
53   Fessenden's World 1937   Edmond Hamilton
54   The Abyss under the World 1937   J. Paul Suter
55   Duar the Accursed 1937   Clifford Ball
56   Quest of the Starstone 1937   Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore
57   Raider of the Spaceways 1937   Henry Kuttner
58   Clicking Red Heels 1937   Paul Ernst
59   Dread Summons 1937   Paul Ernst
60   The Dead Moan Low 1937   Paul Ernst
61   The Creeper in the Crypt 1937   Robert Bloch
62   Symphony of the Dammed 1937   John R. Speer
63   The Mannikin 1937   Robert Bloch
64   The Woman in Room 607 1937   Thorp McClusky
65   The Thing on the Floor 1937   Thorp McClusky
66   The Homicidal Diary 1937   Earl Peirce Jr.
67   The Whistling Corpse 1937   G.G. Pendraves (G.G. Trenery)
68   The Dark Star 1937   G.G. Pendraves (G.G. Trenery)
69   The Thief of Forthe 1937   Clifford Ball
70   Voyage of the Neutralia (laboratory) 1937   B. Wallis
71   The Hairy Ones Shall Dance 1937   Gans T. Field (M.W. Wellman)
72   La Belle Dame Sans Merci 1938   John Keats
73   Roads (Claus Rescues Erinna - bars) 1938   Seabury Quinn
74   Old Cornish Litany 1938    
75   The Black Drama 1938   Gans T. Field (M.W. Wellman)
76   Dreadful Sleep 1938   Jack Williamson
77   Kubla Khan 1938   Samuel Taylor Coleridge
78   Incense of Abomination 1938   Seabury Quinn
79   The Goddess Awakes 1938   Clifford Ball
80   Horns of Elfland 1938   Lord Tennyson
81   Black Moon 1938   Seabury Quinn
82   The Garden of Adompha 1938   Clark Ashton Smith
83   Beyond the Wall of Sleep 1938   H.P. Lovecraft
84   The Ancient Mariner 1938   John Coleridge
85   The Diary of Alonzo Typer 1938   William Lumley
86   The Witch's Mark 1938   Dorothy Quick
87   The Blessed Damsel 1938   Gabriel Rosetti
88   Skeleton in Armor 1938   Henry W. Longfellow
89   The Magic Mirror 1938   Algernon Blackwood
90   The House of Living Music 1938   Edmond Hamilton
91   Israfel 1938   Edgar Allan Poe
92   The Quest of Iranon 1939   H.P. Lovecraft
93   The Rubaiyat (beggar) 1939   Omar Khayyam
94   King Henry IV 1939   Shakespear, William
95   Waxworks 1939   Robert Bloch
96   Giants in the Sky 1939   Frank Belknap Long
97   L'Allegro 1939   John Milton
98   The Willow Landscape 1939   Clark Ashton Smith
99   The Metal Champer 1939   Duane W. Rimel
100   Return of Hastur 1939   August Derleth
101   The Hashish-Eater 1939   Clark Ashton Smith
102   How Love Looked for Hell 1939   Sidney Lanier
103   King Henry VI 1939   Shakespear, William
104   Mannikins of Horror 1939   Robert Bloch
105   A Wine of Wizardry (snake) 1939   George Sterling
106   The Red God Laughed 1939   Thorp McClusky
107   A Wine of Wizardry (pillars) 1939   George Sterling
108   Hellsgarde 1939   C.L. Moore
109   The Dark Isle 1939   Robert Bloch
110   A Wine of Wizardry (cave) 1939   George Sterling
111   Almuric 1939   Robert E. Howard
112   King of the World's Edge 1939   H. Warner Munn
113   Hamlet 1940   Shakespear, William
114   The Rubaiyat (wise man) 1940   Omar Khayyam
115   The Red Gibbet 1940   F.B. Ghensi
116   Spotted Satan 1940   Otis Adelbert Kline and E.H. Price
117   Hallowe'en in a Suburb 1952   H.P. Lovecraft
118/119   The Lamia in the Penthouse 1952   Thorp McClusky
120   The Night Road 1952   August Derleth
121   The Plaid 1952   Abrach
122   Sexton, Sexton, in the Wall 1953   August Derleth
123   I Can't Wear White 1953   Suzanne Picket
124   The Supreme Witch 1953   G. Appleby Terrill
125   Mandrake 1953   Adam Hull Shirk
126   Slime 1953   Joseph Payne Breman
127   Moon Mist 1954   Virgil Finlay
Back Cover   La Belle Dame Sans Merci 1938   John Keats