Weird Tales 'Living Buddhess' Cover by Margaret Brundage, November 1932
A cascade of iridescent peacock feathers fans outward in shimmering teal and silver, framing a red-haired woman seated cross-legged in jeweled dancer's costume — her expression one of trembling vulnerability. Behind her looms a dark-robed, turbaned figure, claw-like hands hovering predatorily over her headdress. Margaret Brundage's pastel gouache technique renders flesh and feather with equal sensuous attention, distilling Seabury Quinn's occult-Oriental thriller premise into pure visual menace and exotic glamour.
Brundage packs maximum menace-meets-glamour into every inch — imperiled beauty, lurking evil, and a cascade of peacock feathers doing triple duty as costume, throne, and visual spectacle. The imagination-per-square-inch ratio is quintessential Weird Tales: equal parts pulp threat and painterly opulence.
“NOVEMBER Weird Tales 25¢ Living Buddhess BY SEABURY QUINN A strange and curious thrill-tale of a living female Buddha”
