Weird Tales January 1941 – Dragon Moon Atlantis Cover by Harold DeLay
A slavering green dragon lunges forward with bulging eyes and gnashing teeth, its scaled body dominating the lurid composition in sickly yellows and greens. To the left, a terrified woman in a diaphanous gown recoils in horror, while a sword-wielding warrior bearing a round shield charges from the right against a murky, moon-drenched sky. The painting illustrates Henry Kuttner's novelette 'Dragon Moon,' a tale set in drowned Atlantis, rendered in vivid pulp gouache with characteristic Weird Tales menace and saturated jungle hues.
A three-way confrontation between a leering reptilian dragon, a sword-swinging hero, and a swooning beauty radiates maximum pulp melodrama. The lurid green-yellow palette and the creature's grotesquely expressive face push this into peak Weird Tales spectacle.
“All Stories New and Complete — No Reprints January Weird Tales 15¢ SEABURY QUINN ROBERT BLOCH DAVID H. KELLER NELSON S. BOND Powerful Novelette of Drowned Atlantis DRAGON MOON By HENRY KUTTNER”
