Weird Tales May 1935 'The Devil's Double' Margaret Brundage Cover
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Weird Tales May 1935 'The Devil's Double' Margaret Brundage Cover

Dread and helplessness radiate from this iconic Weird Tales cover as a terrified dark-haired woman in a revealing costume recoils between a gaunt, pale-faced man and a menacing horned devil cloaked in blood-red robes. The devil's clawed red hand reaches toward her in an act of supernatural claim. Margaret Brundage's signature soft, painterly glamour renders the scene simultaneously sensual and horrifying — a hallmark of Weird Tales' most memorable 1930s covers.

Category: Magazine Cover
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Artist: Margaret Brundage
Era: Pulp Era (1920s-1940s)
Decade: 1930s
Country: United States
Coolness: 8/10

A red-clawed, horned devil in a crimson robe reaching for a scantily clad woman while a ghoulish man restrains her — Brundage's cover distills Weird Tales' most lurid formula into a single unforgettable tableau of supernatural predation.

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Weird Tales / The Unique Magazine / MAY / THE DEVIL'S DOUBLE / a powerful tale of the ghastly Blue Death / By PAUL ERNST / ARTHUR J. BURKS / EDMOND HAMILTON / SEABURY QUINN / ROBERT BLOCH / 25¢

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