Weird Tales April 1930: 'The Dust of Egypt' by Seabury Quinn, Hugh Rankin Cover
A lurid green Egyptian tomb backdrop drips with hieroglyphics and painted murals as a glowing, semi-translucent female figure — adorned in ancient headdress and beaded collar — materializes from the ether. Before her, a hunched ghoulish creature receives a stream of glowing yellow dust from a commanding robed figure at right, whose massive pointing hand dominates the composition. Hugh Rankin's gouache palette of sickly green, blood red, and spectral white perfectly captures Seabury Quinn's occult Egyptomania.
A spectral Egyptian goddess, a crouching ghoul receiving magical dust, a commanding sorcerer, and a richly muraled tomb all crammed into one vivid green-drenched tableau — Rankin packs every square inch with occult menace and lurid theatrical drama.
“Weird Tales The Unique Magazine The Dust of Egypt by Seabury Quinn April - 1930 25¢ 35¢ in Canada Other Stories by — Paul Ernst Jeremy Ellis David H. Keller J. Joseph-Renaud Edmond Hamilton W. K. Mashburn, Jr. Henry S. Whitehead Hugh Rankin”
