Margaret Brundage's 'Chosen of Vishnu' Weird Tales Cover, August 1933
A turbaned assassin dangles from a rope outside a brick building, clutching a scantily clad dark-haired woman in a shimmering gold sari against a moody violet-blue night sky. The cover illustrates Seabury Quinn's occult thriller 'The Chosen of Vishnu,' steeped in exotic Orientalist menace. Brundage's signature sensuous style dominates — silk drapery billowing, jeweled adornments glinting — delivering the provocative, lurid glamour that made Weird Tales infamous on newsstands during the Depression era.
A turbaned fiend, a helpless beauty, and twenty-five cents standing between you and the most dangerous cover on the newsstand — Brundage delivers again!
“Weird Tales AUGUST, 1933 AUG – 25¢ Vol. 22, No. 2 – 25¢ The Chosen of Vishnu by SEABURY QUINN Printed in U.S.A.”
