A dramatic cover of a girl in peril by Margaret Brundage for the February 1936 Weird Tales. Vampirism or mad science or both? I can’t account for the curious spelling “eery” on this cover, but I do suspect that Brundage’s illustration is an ancestor of a whole trove of interesting fetish art.

As she so often did, C.L. Moore has a story in this issue, “Yvala.” “Yvala was a gloriously beautiful woman — Lilith, Circe, and Helen combined into one — yet she was cruel and dangerous as a flame from hell.” (There’s always a catch…) Vincent Napoli did his best within the limits of his medium to bring her to life.

Atoms of the soul are an interesting concept.

This issue of Weird Tales is available to read or download from the Internet Archive.