Wonder Stories July 1931 – City of Singing Flame Portal Cover Art
A lone human figure in red reaches toward a towering luminous green energy column erupting from an alien ceremonial platform. Crowds of bizarre alien beings — hulking, multicolored, and grotesque — press forward in awe or frenzy beneath a violet sky framed by massive ringed pillars. The scene illustrates Clark Ashton Smith's 'The City of Singing Flame,' capturing dimensional-portal pulp grandeur at its most theatrical and visually intoxicating.
A swirling interdimensional circus of alien bodies and glowing green energy, this cover cranks the cosmic weirdness dial to eleven. Frank R. Paul's fevered architecture and alien crowd work is pulp illustration operating at peak delirium.
“ADVENTURES OF FUTURE SCIENCE Wonder Stories July Hugo Gernsback Editor Other Science Stories In This Number "THE TIME PROJECTOR" By David Lasser and Dr. D. H. Keller "THE PLANET OF DESPAIR" By R. F. Starzl REBELLION—3000 A.D. By Garth Bentley "THE CITY OF SINGING FLAME" By Clark Ashton Smith 25¢”
