From the exhibition
Selección Terror: Un buen sitio para morir
· 1976

A Spanish pulp horror magazine from the 1970s, this cover exemplifies the genre's visual language: a woman in a nightgown confronted by a skeletal, hooded figure beneath a full moon, with bats circling a graveyard. The lurid painted illustration and dramatic lettering announce the contents as weird fiction—tales of supernatural menace drawn from the tradition of horror pulps that flourished internationally after the 1920s. The cover's composition, balancing vulnerable figure against spectral threat, became a visual formula for marketing horror stories across multiple media, from magazines to paperback books to comic books.
Public domain (copyright not renewed), restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain