
Weird Tales Feb 1934 — Seabury Quinn 'Web of Living Death' Margaret Brundage Cover
A turbaned sorcerer conjures glowing threads from a bubbling cauldron, ensnaring three scantily-clad women on a rose-brick floor while a pale, hollow-eyed mystic looms in the background, arms crossed in sinister command. The luminous strands connecting the vessels suggest a supernatural web of control — someone's soul, or life itself, is being drawn out. This is Margaret Brundage's signature style: sensuous peril, occult menace, and harem exoticism fused into lurid, unforgettable pulp imagery.
OH MAMA — a Brundage original in the flesh! Three imperiled women, a web-weaving warlock, glowing supernatural threads AND a creepy background ghost-master? This is peak Weird Tales excess and I am not okay. Instant centerpiece of any pulp collection.
“Weird Tales FEB. 25c THE WEB OF LIVING DEATH a weird detective mystery By SEABURY QUINN NRA [eagle emblem] WE DO OUR PART”





