Weird Tales Oct 1928 – 'The Werewolf's Daughter' Chained Maiden Cover by C.C. Senf
Dread and helplessness saturate this lurid 1928 pulp cover — a red-haired woman in a diaphanous pink gown is chained to a stone pillar, a pendulum axe descending toward a pyre of faggots at her feet, while a masked, orange-skinned torturer sits watching with casual menace. A crowd lurks in the shadowy background, bearing witness. The scene illustrates H. Warner Munn's werewolf tale with theatrical Gothic cruelty, rendered in vibrant chromolithographic color.
The pendulum axe poised directly above the bound woman's head while a hooded torturer sits in bored indifference is peak pulp sadism — Gothic torture-spectacle served up as mainstream newsstand fare for a quarter.
“Weird Tales / The Unique Magazine / The Werewolf's Daughter / by H. Warner Munn / October 1928 / 25¢ / 50¢ in Canada / Seabury Quinn — Genevieve Larsson — Paul Ernst / Arthur J. Burks — Theodore Roscoe — and Others / C.C. SENF”
