Weird Tales January — Priestess of the Labyrinth Minotaur Cover, 1940s
A newsstand browser in wartime America would have felt a visceral jolt of dread and desire seeing this: a radiant, crown-haloed priestess blazing with unearthly light, flanked by a snarling minotaur and shadowed demonic faces lurking in the darkness. Painted with lush, theatrical bravado, the composition channels ancient myth through pulp sensationalism — a glowing woman in white commanding monstrous forces, promising forbidden subterranean worlds within Edmond Hamilton's 'Priestess of the Labyrinth.'
This cover delivers peak Weird Tales energy — a luminous barely-clad priestess commanding a horned demon while shadow-monsters leer from the darkness. It belongs proudly on a dorm room wall, but its painterly craft and mythic gravitas wouldn't embarrass a pulp art museum gallery either.
“"REVOLT OF THE TREES" by ALLISON V. HARDING Weird Tales JANUARY 15¢ DERLETH WELLMAN SEABURY QUINN Subterranean horror, dimensional fantasy "Priestess of the Labyrinth" EDMOND HAMILTON”
