Weird Tales July 1943 — WWII Ghost Soldier Haunts Pacific Reef
Supernatural apparition technology — the ghostly return of a fallen WWII soldier — anchors this wartime pulp cover. A translucent, helmeted infantryman bearing a rifle materializes behind a haggard civilian survivor on a mid-Pacific beach, while a military flying boat rests in the background and grave markers dot the shoreline. The spectral soldier glows with an eerie green-blue luminescence, blending battlefield horror with supernatural menace in classic Weird Tales fashion.
The glowing ghost soldier rising up behind that poor guy on the beach gave me the chills — especially with all those crosses in the background! It's not as wild as some covers but combining the war and ghosts in the Pacific is genuinely spooky stuff.
“"YOURS TRULY --- JACK THE RIPPER" by ROBERT BLOCH JULY Weird Tales 15¢ THE STREET OF FACES by Frank Owen After the war its ghosts return to a mid-Pacific reef "His Last Appearance" by H. BEDFORD-JONES”
