Weird Tales June 1923 — Woman Flees Werewolf, 'The Evening Wolves'
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Weird Tales June 1923 — Woman Flees Werewolf, 'The Evening Wolves'

In 1923 America, anxieties about the beast lurking beneath civilized domesticity found vivid form in pulp horror. This cover for the fourth issue of Weird Tales — 'The Unique Magazine' — depicts a terrified woman in a crimson dress recoiling from a snarling, fur-covered wolfman who has invaded her parlor. The gaslit domestic setting — lamp, dresser, framed art — makes the intrusion all the more visceral. Ghostly shapes drift at the bottom, layering supernatural dread onto primal animal terror.

Category: Magazine Cover
Source: Internet Archive
Artist: R. M. Murchison
Era: Pulp Era (1920s-1940s)
Decade: 1920s
Country: United States of America
Coolness: 8/10

A snarling wolfman cornering a terrified woman in her own home while spectral shapes swirl below is quintessential pulp melodrama. The vivid red dress against murky greens and the beast's exposed fangs deliver maximum visceral impact for a 1923 newsstand.

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Weird Tales THE UNIQUE MAGAZINE Vol. I, No. 4 JUNE, 1923 (Printed in U.S.A.) 25 Cents Paul Ellsworth Triem's Latest Novel The Evening Wolves Begins in this Issue

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