Unspeakable Horror!

I'm currently working at Village Books in Bellingham, Washington, and one of my holiday picks is the amazing Mexican Pulp Art from Feral House Press.  As a writer and lover of campy horror, I find delight and inspiration in the pages of this super-colorful and imaginative book. 

Flipping through the pages of this book is truly a wonderful experience.  The color quality of the images is amazing, and each painting tells a wonderful  and shocking story.

In fact, I based a short-story writing assignment on these images for my class this quarter.  There are many images that evoke a story in the viewer's mind. I find myself browsing through the book all the time just to get another jolt of vivid imagination.  It just makes me happy.  Most of the images are completely overdramatic and lurid, and these are the ingredients that make this such a fun book.

The book also includes an introduction that explains the original context of these art pieces as covers for pulp fiction magazines.  It also puts the images in a cultural context, a mixture of popular fiction and folklore.  

This book will inspire the imagination of any writer in the field of supernatural fiction, and any fan of the lurid and the bizarre.