Demon Violinist Raises the Dead – Weird Tales May 1948 Cover

Likely illustrating Allison V. Harding's 'City of Lost People,' this lurid cover depicts a towering skeletal demon with wild white hair and glowing green eyes sawing a demonic melody on a violin while ghostly entranced figures dance helplessly beneath him in a moonlit graveyard. Bats swoop across the blood-red earth as tombstones crowd the foreground, the full moon casting an eerie pallor. A masterwork of supernatural horror pulp imagery at its most unrestrained.