DavidHoag
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Nov 4, 2023 3:20 PM
DavidHoag
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Enjoy!!
TheInitiated
The value of this for me is that those of the literary works cited here that I know are so good that I can use the others as a qualified list if suggestions for further reading.
BrightenSide
Ooh, DnD encounter ideas.
tavinjer
I love Wayne Barlowe but #3 looks nothing like the alzebos I’VE seen.
BagOfPrayers
Hey! I have a copy of this but it's water damaged. It's nice to see these images with their original clarity again. :)
MyOldUserNameMeantUndeadCocaineButNowItsThis
The art style reminds me of the 2nd Edition Monster's Manual. The editions that came after were better set up for games and customization but the classic 2nd Edition had a lot of style and charm.
Sageypie
#14 man, I need to go back and finish that series. Had a pair of books that were meant to be the complete thing, and then Roger apparently added a few more books to the series. The dick. Now I need to track Those down, and find the time to make myself sit and read through them, all to be transported to a world of fantasy and whimsy, like some asshole. "Oh I made a delightful fantasy series dealing with multiversal travel in a somewhat realistic way, that you can easily lose yourself in" fuck off
TimmyTheOrc
I -LOVED- this book back when I was kid. Some of the monsters seriously freaked me out though (I'm looking at YOU Red Death and Vodyanoi!)
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
I have a copy of this (it’s missing the dust cover)
HereticsAllOfYou
#1 The Alzabo is much more frightening when you find out it absorbs the minds of things it eats and can mimic the sounds they make. Imagine you dad went out for food once and hasn't been back in hours. You hear steps outside of a beast far too large to be your dad and casts a shadow far too large for a human, but then you hear your dad, clear as day, asking if you can come outside and check the car battery for him.
jshann
I have a copy of this
SpinkyKrindleman
I had Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials as a youth, this is a wonderful surprise!
Session10
That rendition of a griffin immediately makes me suspicious of how accurately any of these reflect what they're supposed to be depicting.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
#28 was not expecting Mercedes Lackey on here! Kerowyn is my favorite character of hers!
mehimbored
#25 everything reminds me of her
possiblyafakeaccount
I used to have a book like this with sci-fi characters. It was awesome!
UnicornRaline
Amazing
CaptainInvictus
hell yeah
cuttlesquirt
This is an amazing collection..... Wholly cow I am grateful for your post
Nugarwrites
I see a tiddy nipple! Nice! Also, it's nice to see a reference to Tailchaser's Song. These days everyone is all about Warrior Cats, but I grew up with Tailchaser.
WPIII381
I had this book. Got me into other books. At the same time I had the Shannara trilogy and was happy to see something from there even if it wasn't exactly as I had envisioned it. Fun stuff. It's been 25 years or so.
Christonabike101
So that's the players from the East, now let's take a look at the West at this year's college bowl!!
omudincada
dude where's Shrike from Dan Simmons' Hyperion cantos?
RElGNMAN
signedinjusttocomment
I clicked on post expecting some well known book covers or something and end up getting Barlowe’s epic art book in it’s entirety. Very awesome,now post his alien one.
DavidHoag
I did. I also posted as much of Barlowe's "Hell" paintings as I could find, and the S.Petersen's Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors... and the entire book of Gnomes by Huygen/Poortvliet. I'll post more great finds from the 70s when I can. The Gnome book post was 230 images... took too long, but I enjoy disseminating cult classics in their entirety.
DavidHoag
I posted the Fantasy characters book by Barlowe without having actually read the book. I am unsure whether there is text/story to go along with each picture, but I'm hoping there is. I bought a first edition from Abebooks and I'd love to see some text to go along with the color images.
dnsbubba
Didn't he also do a similar book on ScFi aliens?
razorgirl1066
I was just thinking this. My dad had that one.
rowboatrowboat8
My dad owned both the books and I remember reading them separately and making the realization
CaptainInvictus
they uploaded it before this one, in fact
SteveMND
He's done at least two more Barlowe's Guides books; one with Cthulhu mythos creatures and one with famous sci-fi creatures. I suspect he's done others by now as well.
MichaelSurbrook
He's done two -- Extraterrestrials and Fantasy.
SteveMND
I stand corrected; he did the Elder Things in his Extraterrestrials book, and then there was S. Peterson's Field Guide to Cthulhu Monsters, which was done in Barlowe's style, and I conflated the two. Mea culpa!
MichaelSurbrook
No problem.that said, I’d love to see more from him.
TurduckenMcNugget
I've read Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers, but I don't remember the Eastern Efrits. Powers is an interesting writer.
SubsyServy
They attack him late at night in Vienna wearing odd stilt shoes (so they don't contact the ground), he almost dies but a wound causes his blood to run down his sword and his weakness causes the swords tip to touch the ground and that in effect makes it so his blood is touching the ground so he cant be further weakened by their otherworldly flute music.
TurduckenMcNugget
The "don't touch the ground" thing reminds me of Anubis Gates and the clown on stilts there.
TurduckenMcNugget
I remember the sword Caladbolg. I named my Paladin in World of Warcraft Calad as a result. This has, unfortunately, lead to guild mates referring to me as DJ Calad. I guess I played myself. Not sure if that worse than the guild mate who would always pronounce it Salad to get my goat.
DarkfireDragon
Griffins are winged protoceratops? I don't HATE his idea but it seems more basic than cat-eagle.
Rystefn
There's a whole idea that the concept of griffons was started from people seeing protoceratops skulls and not knowing what they were looking at. I don't find it entirely convincing, but it's kind of interesting.
DarkfireDragon
Oh yeah, I get that. It's just that, as someone who loves both dinos and mythical beasts the design was kind of meh.
PoopyProblem5
Heard the same thing regarding the origin of the idea of cyclops after the discovery of old elephant/mammoth skulls so i believe it.
DarkfireDragon
Yup. Learned that in Zoo Books when I was a kid!
Rystefn
I heard that one, too. Having seen what those skulls look like, it seems plausible to me.
AdrienMenges
Is this basically a page for page post of the book?!
BagOfPrayers
Not quite, each page opposite the full color ones has a description of the person/creature and their place in their source material.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Which they had in a different post, was sad the information wasn't given with these :(
Goldenteckel
Thank you for this new cornucopia of wonders. I didn't know that Barlowe also drew some of T. Pratchett's characters.
Sloth53
Also these, I have several boxes unopened
Goldenteckel
Wow ! I didn't even know those existed.
DavidHoag
More to come! :)
KingofSadness
So based on your recent posts I can assume you're really into romcoms and mystery novels...
TheRealLouzander
How do you get these crisp, high quality images @op?
DavidHoag
I just comb the internet. The latest post of Wayne Barlowe's Hell pictures came from what MAY be Barlowe's own site, but it's hard to tell sometimes, especially when the sites are really amateurish.