Weird Tales Oct 1926 – The Supreme Witch by G. Appleby Terrill
Illustrating G. Appleby Terrill's 'The Supreme Witch,' this cover plunges us into a medieval dungeon where a menacing sorcerer in a purple cavalier coat lunges forward, sword drawn, while a sinister red-masked figure carries an unconscious woman in white toward a shadowy archway. Beyond the stone passage, a gallows looms in the village square — doom waiting just outside. The composition crackles with Gothic melodrama, theatrical lighting, and the irresistible danger-and-damsels energy that defined Weird Tales at its pulp peak.
Gallows outside the window, a masked fiend, a swooning captive, and a cackling swordsman — Weird Tales delivers pure Gothic nightmare fuel at 25 cents a pop.
“Weird Tales The Unique Magazine The Supreme Witch by G. Appleby Terrill October, 1926 25¢ Vol. VIII, No. 4 – 25c Printed in U.S.A. Eli Colter, Edmond Hamilton, Greye La Spina, Seabury Quinn, Victor Rousseau, Henry S. Whitehead, and others”
