Weird Tales 'Stealer of Souls' Cover — January 1926 Soul-Extraction Horror

A sinister laboratory scene unfolds as a white-robed figure looms over a helpless patient bathed in a cone of eerie yellow light projected from an apparatus above. A ghostly disembodied male face materializes within a glass globe — the stolen soul itself — suspended in spectral green shadow. The machine's mechanical arms and dials frame the horror with cold pseudo-scientific menace. This is mad science at its most visceral: the soul reduced to captive specimen.