Lee Brown Coye

Lee Brown Coye (1907 - 1981) was an American artist who illustrated several stories for Weird Tales starting in 1945, and produced the cover art for a number of Arkham House books, including the original Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos and the H. P. Lovecraft collections At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales and The Dunwich Horror and Others. He also provided cover art for collections of stories by Hugh B. Cave, Clark Ashton Smith, and Manly Wade Wellman.
Stories that Coye illustrated for Weird Tales include "The Hog", "The Will of Claude Ashur", "The Whippoorwills in the Hills", "The Master of the Crabs", and "The Gorge Beyond Salapunco".
In 1944, the August Derleth edited anthology Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur was released, featuring classics such as "Count Magnus", "The Return of the Sorcerer", "Two Black Bottles", "The Horror in the Burying-Ground", "The Yellow Sign", "The Black Stone", and "The Rats in the Walls", each accompanied by an illustration by Coye.
In 1967, Arkham House released 3 Tales of Horror, featuring three Lovecraft stories ("The Colour Out of Space", "The Dunwich Horror", and "The Thing on the Doorstep") illustrated by Coye.
Coye's illustrations of lattices of sticks (such as featured in the cover of the Clark Ashton Smith collection Other Dimensions) inspired the horror short story "Sticks", by Karl Edward Wagner, which was included in the revised edition of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.
==See also==
*Images by Lee Brown Coye
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