Weird Tales November 1938 – 'I Found Cleopatra' Cover with Glowing Skull
Likely painted by Margaret Brundage or Virgil Finlay-school gouache work, this Weird Tales November 1938 cover deploys the magazine's signature blend of exotic horror and feminine spectacle. A reclining Egyptian queen in gold and blue regalia dominates the foreground, while a luminous cobra-skull idol glows menacingly on an altar behind two transfixed onlookers. The lush warm tones against deep violet shadows exemplify classic pulp cover drama at its most theatrically charged.
More Cleopatra-risen-from-the-dead than your average mummy thriller — the glowing skull-cobra idol and swooning Egyptian beauty push this squarely into peak Weird Tales fever territory, one notch below full cosmic Lovecraftian unhinged.
“Weird Tales NOVEMBER 5c Paul Ernst H. P. Lovecraft Seabury Quinn A Young American Visits a Terrible Valley I FOUND CLEOPATRA by Thomas P. Kelley”
