Weird Tales Nov 1929 – The Gray Killer by Everil Worrell
Mad science and murder converge in this lurid cover depicting a sinister surgical scenario: an elderly white-bearded doctor in a white coat raises a scalpel menacingly over a prone, semi-conscious young woman on an operating table, restrained by a dark-clad accomplice. A ghostly skull looms in the blue-gray background, signaling occult or poisonous death — the titular 'gray killer' of Everil Worrell's story. The composition employs classic pulp horror-science tropes of the mad physician threatening an imperiled female victim.
A creepy old doc with a knife, a helpless dame on the table, and a giant skull floating in the background? This is the most terrifying ten cents I ever spent! Mom would absolutely confiscate this one.
“Weird Tales The Unique Magazine The Gray Killer by Everil Worrell Other Stories by Seabury Quinn – John Impola Robert E. Howard – E.F. Benson David H. Keller – Zealia Brown Reed George B. Tuttle 25¢ 30¢ in Canada November 1929”
