“Ghosts of the Fall” by Denis Martynec

Together, the winning stories and illustrations make up what quickly became one of the best-selling annual anthologies of short fiction—L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future. Published by Bridge Publications, these volumes consistently reflect the magic that springs from the collaboration of innovative illustrators and writers of the horror, fantasy and science fiction genres which comprise the field of speculative fiction.

While illustration now has a proud tradition, it did not attract a wide audience until the late nineteenth century. It was then that the growth of public education and resultant decrease in the literacy level, advances in printing technology and the mass distribution of periodicals introduced the illustrator’s art into the homes of millions of people on a regular basis. Before the advent of motion pictures and television, illustration played the dominant role in forging the mass-market visions of our culture.