From the exhibition
Selección Terror: Sangriento Carnaval
· 1983

A Spanish-language pulp horror magazine featuring a grotesque skeletal figure in the foreground, its bony hand extended toward a woman in candlelit shadows. The cover employs the visual conventions of 1980s horror publishing: lurid painted artwork, high-contrast color (yellows, blacks, flesh tones), and bold typography announcing the genre. Published by Bruguera under their Terror imprint, this selection spotlights Curtis Garland's work within the tradition of illustrated horror magazines that dominated Spanish and Latin American newsstands. The pulp format—cheap paper stock, serialized content, sensational cover imagery—continued the legacy of earlier adventure and weird fiction magazines, adapting their aesthetic for contemporary horror readers through painted rather than photographic covers.
Public domain (copyright not renewed), restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain