Weird Tales May 1947 — Witch and Imps Under Full Moon Cover
Published in May 1947, this Weird Tales cover arrives at the height of post-WWII pulp fantasy, when readers craved escapism into dark supernatural realms. A towering, cadaverous witch in tattered black robes strides menacingly across a moonlit wasteland, flanked by three grotesque horned imp-demons rendered in vivid orange-red. Her hooked nose and wild white hair radiate malevolent authority, while the bloated yellow full moon backlit against a stormy blue sky amplifies the nightmarish, carnival-of-evil atmosphere that defined Weird Tales at its most gloriously lurid.
A screeching witch commanding a trio of leering, horn-snouted devil-imps under a bloated harvest moon — this is pulp horror at its most theatrically deranged. Harold Lawlor's cartoonishly exaggerated demons and the witch's impossibly elongated silhouette push the whole scene into gleefully unhinged territory.
“RAY CUMMINGS HAROLD LAWLOR MAY Weird Tales 5¢ THE PLACE WITH MANY WINDOWS --- A. V. HARDING "... and all of them looked upon death..." PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED”
