Weird Tales March 1929 – 'The People of Pan' Pagan Ritual Cover

Far from predicting future technology, this cover gleefully rejects it entirely — instead conjuring ancient pagan terror as the true horror of tomorrow. A scantily clad woman in animal-skin garb reaches toward swirling supernatural flames rising from a stone altar, upon which a massive golden ram rears up menacingly. Crumpled bodies litter the altar steps, with a lush classical ruin and dark forest looming behind. This is Weird Tales at its mythological weirdest — occult ritual, divine beast, and sacrificial dread rendered in lush pulp chromolithography.