Weird Tales December Vampire Devil Cover – The Sin-Eater 1930s Pulp Art
More viscerally menacing than many contemporaneous Weird Tales covers by Margaret Brundage, this December issue abandons her signature soft eroticism for a snarling horned demon looming over a prostrate female victim beside a candlestick draped with a black raven. The fiend's elongated taloned fingers and leering fanged face dominate a fiery amber background, with Books of Earth, Water, Night, and Death arrayed beneath him — a tableau perfectly matched to the dual-personality horror of G.G. Pendarves' featured story.
A snarling fanged devil with razor talons menacing a swooning woman beside a death-raven candlestick — this cover would have leapt off the newsstand and grabbed you by the throat. Every lurid element of classic weird fiction horror is firing at maximum intensity.
“16th Year of Publication Weird Tales 25¢ DECEMBER SEABURY QUINN TALBOT JOHNS THOMAS P. KELLEY A powerful tale of possession and dual personality THE SIN-EATER G. G. Pendarves EARTH WATER NIGHT DEATH”
