A selection of Weird Tales magazine cover art.

(unfortunately I do not know the artists of each to credit)

Virgil Finlay

 http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/weird-tales

http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Tales

All Images - Gustave Dore (1832 - 1883) for Garganua and Pantagruel written by Francois Rabelais

http://www.doreillustrations.com/gallery.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais

'And in the silence followed the marvelous dialogue of the Chimera and the Sphinx; it was recited in deep guttural tones which were at first raucous, then turned shrill and unearthly.'

"... New perfumes I seek, stranger flowers I seek, pleasures not yet discovered."

JK Huysmans ~ from  A Rebours

Last Days of Chimera
© Breck Outland -2012

http://visionaryartgallery.weebly.com/breck-outland.html

Gustave Moreau

© Paul Rumsey https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paul-Rumsey/246400918753282

Jacek Malczewski

Nikolai Kalmakoff

John Singer Sargent

Alexandre Seon

Jean Louis Desprez

Bernard Picart

Chimera of Arezzo

© Oleg Yahnin http://academart.com/yahnin.htm

Frantisek Dritkol

Franz Von Stuck

Valere Bernard

Felicien Rops

Elihu Vedder

Frantisek Bilek

Susan Seddon Boulet

Frantisek Kupka

Jan Toorop

Alfred Kubin

Francois Xavier Fabre

Gustave Dore

Gustav Adolf Mossa

Fernand Khnopff

© Santiago Caruso http://santiagocaruso.blogspot.com.ar/

Andy Paciorek

Images inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka (1883 -1924) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka

Robert Crumb http://www.amazon.com/Kafka-David-Zane-Mairowitz/dp/1560978066

José Rafael Hernández http://www.amazon.co.uk/El-proceso-Franz-Kafka/dp/8477022984/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332439268&sr=1-5

Bill Bragg  http://www.foliosociety.com/book/FKS/kafka-trilogy

Jaramila Marinova :  http://www.jarmilamaranova.com/

 Lawrence Sterne Stevens 

Koji Yamamura

uploaded to youtube by Shelly Spider

Illustrations to the poem Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti ~ 

Kinuko Craft

Arthur Rackham

http://rackham.artpassions.net/

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Emma Florence Harrison

Laurence Housman

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/gobmarket.html

James McPartlin

Amelia Baeurle (Bowerly)

John Byam Liston Shaw

by ? (if anyone knows please inform me in comments)

Full poem after page-break

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