Witch & Jester Dance at Midnight Castle — Weird Tales May 1950
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Witch & Jester Dance at Midnight Castle — Weird Tales May 1950

A crimson-robed sorceress with flame-red horned headdress and a leering yellow jester-devil flank a glowing gothic castle under a crescent moon, as if mid-ritual — moments before some dark bargain is sealed. Stars scatter across the murky sky like spilled magic, and the castle's lit windows hint at unseen horrors within. The composition crackles with theatrical menace, balancing macabre fantasy with carnival grotesquerie in classic Weird Tales fashion.

Category: Magazine Cover
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Era: Atomic Age (1945-1963)
Decade: 1950s
Country: United States
Coolness: 7/10

OH MAMA — a flame-horned witch AND a cackling jester devil flanking a haunted castle under a crescent moon for twenty-five cents?! This is the exact cover that made your grandmother throw it in the trash, which means finding a copy today is pure gold.

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MAY Weird Tales MAY 1950 ANC 25¢ SEABURY QUINN W. F. TEMPLE "Tell Your Fortune" ROBERT BLOCH FANTASY NOVEL FIC SIMON MINS 25¢

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