Enchantress of Venus – Planet Stories Fall 1949 Leigh Brackett Cover
Leigh Brackett's 'Enchantress of Venus' — her brooding novella set on a fog-shrouded, brimstone-reeking Venus — ignited this explosive cover. A golden-gowned Venusian enchantress dominates the frame, her dragon-crested tiara and green winged serpent crackling with menace, while a shackled Earthman grapples helplessly below. The scene pulses with danger, sexual tension, and alien spectacle — classic Brackett, rendered in vivid oils by a master of Fiction House's house style.
She's hate, she's horror, she's got a pet dragon — and some poor Earthman is about to have the worst date of his life beside a brimstone sea. Peak Fiction House delirium.
“ANC PLANET Stories TRADE MARK REG FALL 20c FICTION HOUSE MAGAZINES She was hate and she was horror — and the Earthman had a date with her beside the brimstone sea . . . ENCHANTRESS OF VENUS Novel of the Lost Ones by LEIGH BRACKETT SLOAN • ABERNATHY • GUTH”
