Saturday, 25 May 2013

UPDATE!!



The Art of the Beautiful~Grotesque Posterous which fed this blog has now been deleted (along with all other Posterous blogs, Twitter directly to blame) but much of the content is still available to view as an archive on this blog.
The sharing of  imagery however continues in fits and bursts at the following Tumblr sites

The Sepia Path ~ Symbolist, Visionary,  mythic art & Illustration etc.

Pulp Flesh ~ Pulp, sci-fi, horror, comic arts etc.

The Mist~Gates ~ Strange and atmospheric photography and movie stills etc.

The Art of Andy Paciorek ~ my own art, book illustration and photography

Pop over to any of them any time ;)

Cheers and All the Best :)
@ndy 
(formerly Art of the Beautiful~Grotesque)

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Death of the Beautiful~Grotesque?

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The Posterous blogging platform and therefore Art of The Beautiful~Grotesque is due to be permanantly closed down on April 30 2013 and all content will be deleted.

I am attempting to transfer all material posted here to another blogging platform (though am currently facing technical details with the process - if I manage, I will update this post with the new web address).

Any new blog may however be an archive of previously posted material, as though I am not fully decided, I think that now, for a number of reasons may be an apt time for me to retire from all wider art blogging. (Though I will still maintain on occassion new posts of my own artwork and photography at  http://andypaciorek.tumblr.com/ )

Hope you have enjoyed the images and movies etc posted on the Art of the Beautiful~Grotesque and Thank You for your visits. Until April 30, please continue to revisit your favourite posts and download any images you particularly may like whilst there is still chance.

If an archive blog does get created, I will post the details here before the Posterous closure.

Cheers and all the Best ~

Andy

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Tuesday, 26 February 2013

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Weird Menace also known as Shudder Pulp is a sub-genre of Pulp horror fiction popular in magazines of the 1930's and 40's. Often integrating elements of detective crime thriller, a frequent motif of Weird Menace were the valiant efforts of heroes to rescue pretty women from the clutches of possibly supernatural, but definitely deviant, warped, cruel and weird sadists and monsters,

Popular Weird Menace magazines included Terror Tales, Horror Stories, Dime Mystery and Sinister Stories.

Jim & Ruth Keegan.

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Rudolph Zirm x3

Terror Tales

Rafael De Soto

Terror Tales 31

Terror Tales 32

Terror Tales 4

Terror Tales 24

Terror Tales 25

Terror Tales 23

Terror Tales 21

Terror Tales 29

Terror Tales 5

Terror Tales 17

Terror Tales 15

Terror Tales 12

Terror Tales 53

Terror Tales 9

Terror Tales 13

Terror Tales 54

Terror Tales 44

Terror Tales 10

Terror Tales 41

Terror Tales 11

Terror Tales 19

John Neton Howitt

Terror Tales 42

Terror Tales 43

Other Terror Tales artists included Rudolph Belarski and E. Hoffmann Price

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Horror Stories 12

Horror Stories 5

Horror Stories 8

Horror Stories 1

Horror Stories 9

Horror Stories 2

Horror Stories 4

Rudolph Zirm

regular Horror Stories cover artist  - John Neton Howitt

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Dime Mystery 48

Dime Mystery 21

Dime Mystery 3

Dime Mystery 5

Dime Mystery 49

 

Dime Mystery 36Dime Mystery 24

Dime Mystery 12

Dime Mystery 18

Dime Mystery 15

Dime Mystery 43

Dime Mystery 33

Dime Mystery 35

Dime Mystery 42

Dime Mystery 29

Dime Mystery 47

Dime Mystery 41

Dime Mystery 40

Dime Mystery 39

Dime Mystery 46

Dime Mystery 44

 

http://www.coverbrowser.com/

http://www.philsp.com/lists/p_magazines.html