Weird Tales 'The Supreme Witch' Cover, October 1926 — Rescue at the Gallows
Published in October 1926, this cover art appeared during the golden infancy of Weird Tales, which had launched just three years prior and was already defining American pulp horror and dark fantasy. The illustration depicts a swashbuckling villain menacing a bound, swooning woman in white while a red-skinned supernatural figure looms behind — a gallows and crowd visible through an arched stone gateway, charging the scene with Gothic menace, occult dread, and breathless melodrama.
A leering villain, a swooning damsel in white, a red demonic figure, and a public hanging framed through a Gothic arch — this cover packs operatic villainy and supernatural peril into every inch. Classic pulp excess at its most theatrically sinister.
“Weird Tales / The Unique Magazine / The Supreme Witch / by G. Appleby Terrill / October 1926 / 25¢ / Eli Colter, Edmond Hamilton, Greye La Spina, Seabury Quinn, Victor Rousseau, Henry S. Whitehead, and others”
