Weird Tales Sept 1926 – 'The Bird of Space' by Everil Worrell Cover
This is the September 1926 cover of Weird Tales: The Unique Magazine, illustrating Everil Worrell's story 'The Bird of Space.' A leering, dark-suited villain clings to a gnarled tree while clutching a swooning woman in red, her body dramatically arched and limp. The golden-amber background and bold compositional tension are classic Weird Tales pulp melodrama. Contributors listed include H.P. Lovecraft, Edmond Hamilton, and E. Phillips Oppenheim, marking this as a landmark issue of the era.
Closer to an exploding space station than a quiet library — a cackling villain dragging a limp woman through a twisted tree in lurid amber and red is quintessential Weird Tales hysteria. The melodrama is cranked high, though the scene stops short of cosmic chaos.
“Weird Tales / The Unique Magazine / The Bird of Space / by Everil Worrell / September / 25¢ / 1926 / E. Phillips Oppenheim / Henry S. Whitehead / Edmond Hamilton / Victor Rousseau / Talbert Josselyn / H.P. Lovecraft / Greye La Spina / Seabury Quinn”
