A pair of posts on image forums Gelbooru and Danbooru agree: this artwork is by Tomero, who uses Pixiv for an online home. Although little information about Tomero is available in English, there’s a substantial gallery of Tomero’s work here. The style of this piece might put one in mind of Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
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Alessandro Biffignandi Set II
Original post here. Sourced via wladsmolensk. Original text:
Alessandro Biffignandi / https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alessandro-Biffignandi/114842618544871
Alessandro Biffignandi Set I
Original post here. Sourced via wladsmolensk. Original text:
Alessandro Biffignandi Roma (Italia), 1935
Ilustrador italiano, con una técnica y estilo personales, creador de infinidad de portadas pulp para comics de terror, eroticos y de guerra.
Mas aqui:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alessandro-Biffignandi/114842618544871
Darlings of the Black Master
Image is a cover of Terror Tales (November-December 1937) and contains the text “Terror Tales. 15¢. Spin-chilling stories by Raymond Whetstone and others. Novelettes of Weird Menace. Dance to Satan’s Drums by Francis James. Darlings of the Black Master by Russell Gray.” Found in this gallery at The Golden Age.
Come along now
This is the cover art from the April 1934 issue of Black Book Detective. The artist is Rafael de Soto, a prolific pulp illustrator and the purported descendant of infamous conquistador Hernando de Soto. (From that same link, de Soto’s tube-girl-to-mermaid mad science transformation cover for the May 1940 Terror Tales magazine is also not to be missed.)
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Daphne
Original post here. Art is originally Daphne by Alex Paschenko. Sourced on tumblr to lj7stkok via wladsmolensk.
Spine visible
Original post here. Sourced to mrdrclub via zerodividedbyzero.
Just a little injection, m’dear
Image is a cover of Terror Tales (August 1937) and contains the text “Terror Tales. 15¢. Blood-chilling novelettes. Satan’s Love Bazaar by Wayne Rogers. Dance of the Bloodless Ones by Francis James. Dale Cummings and others.” Image found in this gallery at The Golden Age.
Spider girls
This is The Web Cave, and it is the first of six related pieces in a sequence called The Peking Opera by photographer Liu Zheng. (1 2 3 4 5 6) In an interview, Liu Zheng recently described a 2013 exhibition of his work as having the theme “sex and death”.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Stacking room at the opium factory
Original post here. Sourced via darksilenceinsuburbia. Original text:
The Stacking Room, Opium Factory at Patna India