Weird Tales January 1951 – Ghoulish Woman and Dead Man's Hand Cover

A pale, ghastly woman with hollow dark-ringed eyes and long dark hair stares out from a murky green swamp background, her expression unnervingly serene. Draped over her bare shoulder is a withered, claw-like dead man's hand, its gnarled fingers curling with menace. The imagery perfectly evokes Gordon MacCreagh's featured story 'The Hand of Saint Ury' — a tale of supernatural hatred channeled through a corpse's severed limb.

Category: Magazine Cover

Source: Internet Archive

Era: Pulp Era (1920s-1940s)

Decade: 1950s

Country: United States

Coolness: 8/10

She's dead, she's beautiful, and that hand on her shoulder has a score to settle — grab this issue before it grabs YOU.

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monsters

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