Emanuele Taglietti was born in Ferrara in 1943. His father worked as a set designer for director Michaelangelo Antonioni, often taking Emanuele with him on set. 
"Sucked to death in a seething cauldron of mud!"
Vice Rackets Of Soho, by Roland Vane. Archer Books, 1951. Cover by Reginald Heade. 
Terror On Duncan Island, by Caroline Farr. Signet Gothic, 1971. Cover by Allan Kass.
The first chemical masks were work by Venitian plague doctors: a bird-like affair, the beak stuffed with lavender, matched with full length coat and hat. It was a terrifying sight - the grim reaper come to apply poultices to your tumours. 
You see we've grown so used to Swedish-style modernism that we've sort of forgotten that maximalism, rather than minimalism, was once the sign of a cultured abode. 
Now I know what you're thinking: 1975? Surely that was wall to wall Bookman Swash!
Most people's tweets (if they're really people) are a stream of consciousness, and Twitter itself is a daily flow of 500 million of these across the surface of your phone. You are currently looking at the collective unconscious of the planet in real time. 
On death:
Time travel is a staple of pulp science fiction and it often involves a paradox: changing history, killing your grandfather, creating a time loop etc. Solving the paradox, or realising too late that one is happening, is half the fun of these stories. 
Peggy Gaddis was a prolific pulp author under her own name and under many nom de plumes. At her peak she was writing a new novel every three weeks. 
Ancient Astronauts: an Official UFO Special. November 1977. 
"Your mission is to proceed up the Nung River by Navy patrol boat, pick up Colonel Kurtz's path at Nu Mung Ba, infiltrate his team by whatever means available... and terminate the Colonel's command." 
Outsider Art, Art Brut, Visionary Art, Naïve Art: nobody has really settled on a name for artworks made by untrained artists which express a raw, energetic experience of the world. It's art from a different perspective, demanding to be heard. 
Are you ready for marriage? (1951) 
Namur is something of a mystery. She's an FBI agent who uses her unique martial arts skills to fight crime. However she always wears a mask to protect her identity. 
The Victorian office of the future had a mimeograph machine. You turned the handle and it sharpened your pencils so you could hand copy better.
It turns out the most commonly used word in a DAW fantasy title is... sword!
At #10: Lufthansa! This uniform was styled on the condiment dispensers at Tempelhof Airport. 
Batman teaching children how to cross the road. London, 1967. 
There are of course many gothic domiciles that women with great hair can flee from:
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