Weird Tales Nov — Robert Bloch's 'Nursemaid to Nightmares' Werewolf Cover
A hairy, bare-chested werewolf-man clasps hands with a suited gentleman in a green fedora — an absurdly cordial meeting of worlds that anchors this surreal Weird Tales cover. Surrounding them are glimpses of a mermaid's green tail, a reclining bald figure, and a demure woman, illustrating Robert Bloch's comic-horror premise of a caretaker tending supernatural creatures. The palette of teal, ochre, and flesh tones gives the scene a dreamlike domestic uncanniness.
The premise — a nursemaid caring for a werewolf, vampire, mermaid, and centaur — is gleefully absurd pulp imagination at its best. The cover commits fully to domestic horror-comedy, a rare tonal ambition for the genre.
“20 gory bigshots of history come back by Vita Ray NOVEMBER Weird Tales 15¢ THE HOUND Fritz Leiber — FRANK OWEN — D. H. KELLER "Nursemaid to Nightmares" He bathed a werewolf, fed a vampire, amused a mermaid, groomed a centaur. ROBERT BLOCH”
