Hector Garrido

Hector Garrido (1928 – April 19, 2020)[1] was an American book cover illustrator. He illustrated numerous science fiction, horror and adventure book covers, including all the covers for the Baroness series of pulp novels, and covers for the Destroyer series. He also illustrated romance and gothic novels, and Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys novels.[2] He also did the painted artwork on G.I.Joe toy packaging of the 1980s.[3] Some of his work is considered good girl art. He was active from 1965 to 1995.

Partial bibliography

• The Anything Box, Zenna Henderson, Avon Books (1965)
• Pilgrimage: The Book of the People, Zenna Henderson, Avon (1967)
• Needle, Hal Clement, Avon (1967)
• The Day New York Trembled, Irwin Lewis, Avon (1967)
• No Blade of Grass, John Christopher, Avon (1967)
• Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein, Avon (1967)
• Master of Life and Death, Robert Silverberg, Avon (1968)
• The People: No Different Flesh, Zenna Henderson, Avon (1968)
• Now Then!, John Brunner, Avon (1968)
• The Little People, John Christopher, Avon (1968)
• The Pedestal, George Lanning, Avon (1968)
• Witch Bane, Robert Neill, Avon (1968)
• The Devil His Due, edited by Douglas Hill, Avon (1969)
• Old House of Fear, Russell Kirk, Avon (1969)
• Night of the Vampire, Raymond Giles, Avon (1969)
• A Stir of Echoes, Richard Matheson, Avon (1969)
• Infernal Idol, Henry Seymour, Avon (1969)
• Unfinished Portrait, Agatha Christie, Dell (April, 1969)
• Baroness novels, Paul Kenyon, Pocket Books (1974–1975)
  • The Ecstasy Connection
  • Diamonds Are for Dying
  • Death Is a Ruby Light
  • Hard-core Murder
  • Operation Doomsday
  • Sonic Slave
  • Flicker of Doom
  • Black Gold
• Lodge Sinister, Dana Ross, Pocket Books (1975)
• Night Shade, Dorothy Daniels, Pocket Books (1976)
• The Parasite, Ramsey Campbell, Macmillan (1980)
• Race Against Time, Carolyn Keene, Grosset & Dunlap (1982)
• Forgetting Places, S. P. Somtow, Tor Books (1987)
• Blood Farm, Sam Siciliano, Pageant Books (1988)
• Death Angel, Robert Black, Pageant (1988)
• The Curse, Carl Sherrell, Pageant (1989)
• Summer of Night, Dan Simmons, Putnam (1991)
• Children of the Night, Dan Simmons, Putnam (1992)
• Fires of Eden, Dan Simmons, Putnam (1994)
• Raven, Charles L. Grant, Tor (1995)

References

External links

• Hector Garrido at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database