She was hate and she was horror — and the Earthman had a date with her beside the brimstone sea…
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This cover scene was painted by Rowena Morrill based upon Esteban Maroto’s Pellucidar drawing of the sacrifice of a girl to a mahar for a proposed Ace Books illustrated edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ At the Earth’s Core. When that Ace Books project ultimately fell through, the publishers commissioned Offutt to write a novel around the Maroto illustrations. The end result was the novel King Dragon.
This particular image gained notoriety when The New York Daily News reported that Saddam Hussein had the work hanging in a secluded townhouse during his fall in Baghdad — but that particular painting turned out to be a mere copy.
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DEATH lurked in a moonlit pool!
A Voyage Into Yesterday
I assume, from the tagline, that the monster on the cover is supposed to be some kind of dinosaur, but it sure looks like a dragon to me.
Later published as a paperback