Weird Tales Sept 1934 – Conan's 'People of the Black Circle' Margaret Brundage Cover
A black-robed, skull-faced sorcerer lunges from an ornate throne of writhing serpentine stonework, taloned hands seizing a scantily clad dark-haired woman who recoils in terror — the climactic confrontation from Robert E. Howard's Conan novella 'The People of the Black Circle.' The composition drips with menace and forbidden Eastern mysticism, the villain's fanged grimace inches from his victim's exposed throat as she twists desperately away. Jewel-toned blues and burning reds amplify the erotic horror tension at maximum Weird Tales intensity.
OH MY GOD, this is the holy grail — a Margaret Brundage Weird Tales cover with Robert E. Howard's Conan and a death-grip sorcerer straight out of fever-nightmare! The NRA seal dates it precisely to 1934, and the sheer lush horror of that skull-faced villain makes this an absolutely unhinged specimen of peak pulp grotesquerie!
“Weird Tales SEPT. 25¢ NRA [seal] THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE a smashing weird novel of eery black magic By ROBERT E. HOWARD SEABURY QUINN GREYE LA SPINA”
