From the exhibition
Selección Terror Siniestro
· 1982

A Spanish-language pulp horror magazine featuring Lou Carrigan's cover art. The composition presents a woman's face in cool tones alongside a grotesque, weathered male visage emerging from shadow, with a moonlit plantation house visible in the background. The violent red lettering of "TERROR" dominates the upper half, while "SINIESTRO" (sinister) anchors the design in yellow. This cover exemplifies the tradition of illustrated horror pulps—magazines that flourished through mid-century, delivering serialized weird fiction and macabre tales to mass audiences. The painted cover art, rendered in Carrigan's naturalistic style, promised supernatural menace and psychological dread within.
Public domain (copyright not renewed), restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain