Another early Weird Tales, this one from October 1927. Te cover painting was executed in this case by Chicago-based German-American artist Curtis C. Senf (1873-1949), who achieves an almost pre-Raphaelite look here.

Hugh Rankin was busy doing interior illustrations on this one. One quick example is this weird bacchanal illustrating Nictzin Dyalhis’s “The Dark Lore.”

I should perhaps note that “Nictzin Dyalhis” appears not to have been someone’s over-clever attempt at a pulp pseudonym, but the real name of a reclusive writer, whose dates are 1873-1942.

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