Virgil Finlay illustrates The Star Beast by Poul Anderson, from Super Science Stories, September 1950. #FinlayFriday

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“Won’t you change?” she asked.
“Oh, yes. I won’t even be able to remember a lot of things I now know. I doubt if even the most intelligent tiger could understand vector analysis. But that won’t matter. I’ll get it back when they restore my human form.”

Virgil Finlay illustrates A Planet Named Shayol by Cordwainer Smith, Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1961. #FinlayFriday
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“Which do you prefer?” said the skin technician. “A great deal of pain or a couple of hour’s unconsciousness?”
“Why should I want pain?” said Mercer.
“Some specimens do,” said the technician, “by the time they arrive here. I suppose it depends on what people have done to them before they got here.”

Virgil Finlay illustrating the Henry Kuttner novelette The Voice of the Lobster, from Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1950. #FinlayFriday
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Days passed, arbitrarily, of course, aboard the Sutter.
Ao lay curled in her shock-hammock, thinking her own dim thoughts and looking at nothing. High up in the wall there was a puffing sound, a scuffle, and a grunt. Behind the grille of the ventilating inlet appeared the face of Macduff.

Cover by Virgil Finlay illustrating ‘Doorway Into Time’ by C. L. Moore from Famous Fantastic Mysteries, September 1943. #FinlayFriday

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The girl leaned back on her metal bench and crossed one beautiful long leg over the other, stirring the sequined folds of her gown into flashing motion.
“How much longer, Paul?” she asked.
The man glanced over his shoulder and smiled.
“Five minutes. Look away now — I’m going to try it again.”

Virgil Finlay cover to Future Science Fiction, June 1959, illustrating ‘Obey That Impulse!’ by Laurence M. Janifer. #FinlayFriday

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“I would like to take a…little bath. It would be so much fun. Like a picnic.”
Oh, God!
“We’re not in that much of a hurry,” she found herself saying.
Dobit smiled at her, butterflies churning the air over his head. Some of them, as a matter of fact, were almost as big as his head.

This one seems appropriate for this week. December 1946 Famous Fantastic Mysteries cover by Virgil Finlay, illustrating the Francis Sibson story, Unthinkable. #FinlayFriday

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"An outcast ship on a lost horizon, she sailed toward her strange rendezvous with the dead — the ghost vessel which had fought back from the legends of the past — to find no world left to hear her story!"

Virgil Finlay cover for Fantastic Universe, March 1958, illustrating 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒕 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 by “Felix Boyd” (Harry Harrison). Trick, or treat? #FinlayFriday

“This is our dance,” he said in a deep voice rich with meaning. Almost automatically she took the proferred hand, unable to resist this man with the strange gleam in his eyes. In a moment they were waltzing and it was heaven.

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Virgil Finlay illustrates 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗺’𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗶𝗳𝗲 by Rog Phillips from Amazing Stories, September 1952. #FinlayFriday

Was Lilith in the room unseen? He peered about, studying the air for signs of refraction or anything else that might be different. There was nothing, except for the growing electric tension. Suddenly his eyes were drawn to a flicker of yellow flame that seemed to come out of the floor.

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Virgil Finlay illustrates ‘The Black Kiss,’ a Cthulhu Mythos story by Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner from Weird Tales, June 1937. #FinlayFriday

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He was swimming parallel with the beach now, and with curious detachment he observed that the storm had subsided. A pale, fog-like glow hovered over the lashing waters, and it seemed to beckon.

Virgil Finlay original art and the published cover to Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1942. Test tube maybes. #FinlayFriday

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