Weird Tales Feb 1935 – Web of Living Death by Margaret Brundage

Menace and exotic dread saturate this lurid 1935 pulp cover, where a turbaned sorcerer manipulates glowing threads above a cluster of scantily clad captive women, while a sinister crone presides from the shadows behind a steaming cauldron. The scene drips with Orientalist fantasy and occult peril — a visual promise of Seabury Quinn's weird detective fiction. Rich jewel tones of crimson, cobalt, and gold frame figures rendered in Margaret Brundage's signature soft, sensual pastel style.