L. Sprague de Camp Covers #1

L. Sprague de Camp is one of my favourite early SF writers.  I personally think he does a great job linking sci-fi with fantasy concepts in his works.  Also, you can feel the words of his texts exuding a massive amount of knowledge of how the world works.  I also really enjoy his short stories, maybe even more than his full-length novels to be honest.  Can't say that about many authors.

Let's look at some of his amazing cover variants here!

crystal blue ashtray - original poem

crystal blue ashtray

my modge podge

coated

crystal blue

ashtray

sleeps with all

the ashen bodies

featherily

asteroidal beings

tainted

with inhales

of love

and exhaled

exultations

LINK:  https://allpoetry.com/poem/16471047-crystal-blue-ashtray--by-Colvet

Name That Author #9

A very notable author here....really changed the game with horror fiction and Zebra cover art.

State your guesses below!

morda - original poem

morda

this forest

is filled

with creatures

of my lord's court

you may lose limbs

before sunrise

for this forest

is filled

with violent faeries

willing to help

on my mission

to destroy

all that you stand for

all that is pure

to please

the pleasant pageantries

playing in my Lord's mind

a thespian

of mental gruel

and medieval

celestial sorcery

I am the huntress

and you are the hunted

my precious one

I'm the captor

who will find your hiding spot

air you out

and give you up

to Satan and his crew

to serve our mother in the afterlife

and appease our father's death

for the realm of Morda

will forever live on

in generational spirals

our paths will cross

once again

as all that is enslaved

eventually does

at the bottleneck

gate-cover in the sky

we all need to comply

open it

mosey our way inside

for Morda

LINK:  https://allpoetry.com/poem/16474020-morda-by-Colvet

goalkicker - original poem

goalkicker

boots boosted

brain fried

running out

of borrowed time

simulated sincerely

stuck in a locket

with a lace

made of sticks

protecting

preserving

narrow

neural passageways

plausibly

possibly

providing something

with the power

deceive me

tug me along

a nodal cord

towards something sweeter

something strong

and much feistier

than yellow Listerine

in the misty

morning fog

or the decaliter

of moonshine

we use to soak

our tainted

trespassing feet

sanitizing each step

for the sake

of eternal rest

to share

a piecemeal with

the motherly

milkweed muggle

made

from tumbled traumas

and jangled cajoles

and disbelief

in the deeds of dust

or the power of fault lines

since everything my son

is so deeply

interconnected

feel the currents

wash our hands clean

be free from

locked doors

and narrow

neural passageways

let your toes breathe

in the wisp

of the Earths crust

silently shedding itself

continuously

beneath our feet

in a little sphere

drifting through infinity

kicked

by a champion

goalkicker

LINK:  https://allpoetry.com/poem/16474936-goalkicker-by-Colvet

garbage man - original poem

garbage man

I'm the garbage man

who works with

the demon of death

you know why they call

my co-worker

the demon of death

don't you?

its meritorious 

he's been employee of the month

for ages now

didn't you see his portrait

of shadowy demise

aligning the hallway

leading to the main lobby?

He's skilled

I presume -

at collecting trash

LINK:  https://allpoetry.com/poem/16476110-garbage-man-by-Colvet

Chester Anderson Covers

Chester Anderson has some of the strangest stories and covers to his name.  Let's take a look at a handful of them here!  I posted a couple of variants as well to show the diversity in his cover arts.