Ann Cantor once again does excellent brushwork, this time with a sinister cover for Avon Publications and the 1949 novel Night Cry by William Stuart. We talked about this one a while back. It’s the story of a cop who kills a suspect, does to the body what you see in the art, then struggles to keep proof of his crime concealed. It’s an atmospheric tale capped with an unexpected ending. We haven’t watched the movie based on it, the 1950 film noir Where the Sidewalk Ends, but we’ll get to it. See more art from Cantor here and here,
1938—BBC Airs First Sci-Fi Program
BBC Television produces the first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of Czech writer Karel Capek’s dark play R.U.R., aka, Rossum’s Universal Robots. The robots in the play are not robots in the modern sense of machines, but rather are biological entities that can be mistaken for humans. Nevertheless, R.U.R. featured the first known usage of the term “robot”.