Snake-Woman Menace: Weird Tales Cover, December 1925
A massive serpent coils around a scantily-clad blonde woman while a suited man raises a sword in desperate defense — pulp horror at its most visceral. This cover for the December 1925 issue of Weird Tales illustrates Seabury Quinn's 'The Tenants of Broussac,' drenched in earthy reds and greens. The snake's fanged maw lunges toward the viewer with reptilian menace, the woman posed in languid peril, the hero caught mid-strike in a torchlit dungeon setting.
A woman draped in nothing but a python while a man swings a sword — Weird Tales understood its assignment completely. Lurid, overwrought, and utterly irresistible; exactly what 25 cents bought you in 1925.
“Weird Tales The Unique Magazine THE TENANTS of BROUSSAC by Seabury Quinn December 1925 25¢ H.G. Wells Eli Colter Arthur J. Burks H. Thompson Rich Frank Belknap Long Jr. and others”
