Avon Fantasy Reader No.5 – C.L. Moore's Scarlet Dream Cover Art, c.1947
A blonde woman in a red bikini writhes upward in a swirling supernatural vortex, her body surrounded by crackling spectral energy as she is violently torn between worlds. Behind her, a green-skinned demon-like figure clutches a revolver, and a snarling beast lurks in the chaos — almost certainly depicting the interdimensional horror of C.L. Moore's 'Scarlet Dream,' where Northwest Smith crosses into a deadly alien dimension through a cursed scarlet shawl.
Oh BUDDY — a half-naked woman getting sucked into a dimensional vortex while a green gun-toting demon leers from the shadows?! This is peak late-40s pulp fever-dream energy, dripping with lurid color and supernatural menace. Someone paid 35 cents for this and got their entire money's worth on the cover alone!
“ANC AVON Fantasy READER No.5 35¢ SCARLET DREAM by C. L. MOORE ROBERT BLOCH FRANK OWEN W. F. HARVEY and others”
