Margaret Brundage's 'Children of the Bat' Weird Tales January Cover
Painted for Seabury Quinn's 'Children of the Bat,' this Margaret Brundage pastel cover depicts a scantily clad blonde woman bound and stretched between unseen restraints, menaced by a coiling serpentine dragon and a looming black bat creature against a lurid crimson background. A flying bat swoops in the upper corner. Brundage's signature soft-focus glamour technique and risqué figure work made her the most iconic — and controversial — cover artist of Weird Tales' golden run.
Bound, barely dressed, and double-monstered — Brundage cranks the peril dial to eleven and dares you to look away. This is peak weird fiction pulp: gorgeous, lurid, and utterly shameless.
“JANUARY Weird Tales 25c CHILDREN OF THE BAT an eery story of unusual thrill and gripping interest ...by SEABURY QUINN H. P. Lovecraft Thorp McClusky Paul Ernst Alfred I. Tooke All Stories Complete”
