C.C. Senf's Alien Monster Confronts Woman, Weird Tales Jan 1932

This cover graces the January 1932 issue of Weird Tales, 'The Unique Magazine,' illustrating Clark Ashton Smith's story 'The Monster of the Prophecy.' Artist C.C. Senf depicts a pale, dark-haired woman recoiling in terror from a grotesque alien creature — grey-skinned, red-crested, with beaming eyes — set against a deep blue star-field dotted with multiple moons or planets. The cosmic backdrop and Smith's signature otherworldly horror are rendered in vivid, expressionistic pulp gouache.