H. P. Lovecraft Set
Lovecraft, H. P. The Lurking Fear and Other Stories. Ballantine Books, 1973 (3rd Ballantine Printing). Softcover.
Lovecraft, H. P., August Derleth (Ed.), and Others. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 2, 1974 (3rd Ballantine Printing). Softcover.
Lovecraft, H. P. The Tomb and Other Tales. Ballantine Books, 1974 (4th Ballantine Printing). Softcover.
Lovecraft, H. P. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror. Ballantine Books, 1973 (3rd Ballantine Printing). Softcover.
Four Lovecraftian mass-market paperbacks (including a hard-to-find anthology edited by Arkham House's August Derleth), all featuring macabre riffs on the human face by the great John Holmes. Holmes, who was praised by Germaine Greer for the skin-suit corset illustration he created for The Female Eunuch and condemned by Susie Orbach for his grotesque design for the first edition of Fat Is a Feminist Issue, developed an early passion for depicting flesh while working as a porter at a meat market and would go on to create series of paintings themed around both Jack the Ripper and Laurel and Hardy.
