"Horror of the 20th Century : An Illustrated History"

[fiefoe]

If what is lurid and salacious appeals, this book is a lavish visual feast. It's chock full of glorious color reproductions of movie posters, novel dust jackets, pulp magazine and comic book covers. My favorite illustration shows a bright-eyed monkey with the body of a giant eagle, swooping down on a thinly dressed damsel.  As for the rest, Robert Weinberg's text is merely filler, a competent catalog of horror authors and their creations down the years. (I didn't suspect either Edith Wharton or E. F. Benson had that in them.)

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From MK office newsletter, "The World According to Tayfun":

    "The weather (in Chicago) has been extreme here too. The team room overlooks a pond, and just the other day some ducks were waddling about and froze when the temperature suddenly dropped. A fox came out and ate the parts of them that were above water. Such is life in the backwaters of Illinois. "