J. Flemming Grill: Giant Creature Abducts Man in Cave, Pulp Horror

Signed by J. Flemming Grill, this energetic pen-and-ink interior illustration captures a massive shadowy creature hoisting a limp human body upside-down amid jagged stalactite formations, while panicked figures scramble below amid scattered hats and debris. Grill's bold cross-hatching and stark contrast between void-black shadows and white space lend the scene visceral urgency. The subterranean cave setting, helpless victim, and lurching horror figure place this squarely in the pulp tradition of lost-world or hollow-earth adventure fiction.