Horned Pan Figure Playing Flute by Moonlight, Weird Tales Nov 1950
A glittering, demonic Pan crouches in a moonlit clearing, piping an eerie tune while iridescent bubbles drift around his hooves. The horned, dark-skinned figure radiates a spray of stardust light against a brooding green-tinted nocturnal landscape of gnarled trees and jagged rock formations. The enormous full moon behind him amplifies the supernatural dread, evoking the primal terror of ancient nature-spirits made monstrous — pure Weird Tales atmosphere rendered in lush, moody pulp gouache.
A luminous, genuinely unsettling Pan-demon dripping with stardust and malevolence — Weird Tales at its atmospheric best. The bubbles and glitter effects give it a fever-dream quality that elevates it well above generic creature cover art.
“NOVEMBER Weird Tales 25¢ "The Third Shadow" WAKEFIELD COUNSELMAN QUINN FRITZ LEIBER ANC”
