I can just imagine a kid who’s been reading Boy’s Life to look at these covers and think “is this what I have to look forward to when I grow up? Can I …not be a man?”
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Sorry son, but having your flesh ripped by hordes of unlikely animals is part of becoming a man. In my case, ring-tailed lemurs ripped my flesh. And they had switchblades.
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Adding “fear for my safety” to the list of reasons kids want to transition…
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And used as a riff numerous times on MST3K.
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Geez, walking in at just the wrong moment and you’re putting that on the cover?
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This Astounding Stories cover has always astounded me, but not for the reasons one might think.
At the Mountains of Madness is arguably Lovecraft’s best work. A creepy, claustrophobic story with just the right pacing and sense of “otherness” throughout, building up to a terrifying climax… which the magazine gives away with the cover illustration.
Lovecraft probably wore a hole in his desk from pounding his head against it.
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Very nice selection. For those, like me, who are into this kind of thing, I do a daily post (with MSTish commentary) on Twitter as part of my long-running (probably too long) Repurposed Pulp Project.
Twitter handle is @scottclevenger, and I serve up a cafeteria-style bounty of Sci Fi, Detective, and Horror pulps, along with frequent cameos by faces that will be familiar to this community, namely Japanese kaiju and tokusatsu TV series characters.
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I have to question why this dress came with melon halves…
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Standard edition space wear for the period.
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The little blurbs are just as fun as the images. “On camera they violated the Code of Decency. Off camera they violated each other.” 
How is that not the intro to an Ed Wood film?
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Yeah, the blurbs are my favorite part. “She did her best work after five.”
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That looks more Egyptian than Greek…
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I wonder if these books got as explicit as the covers suggested?
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Well, some early Greek art does look really Egyptian, but somehow I doubt they knew that.
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You can just see some cigar-champing doughy guy in a suit slamming his fist on the desk. “These classic books will never sell like that. Put some skin on the cover to get 'em moving.”
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