The Dust of Egypt

Early femme peril
"Stop squirming and be sacrificed, young lady!"

Hugh Rankin gives us an Egyptian princess in a filmy gown and some other weird stuff for the the April 1930 cover of Weird Tales. He did a fair amount of interior illustration duty as well that seems equally strange, such as the one below for David H. Keller’s story “Creation Unforgiveable.” Two female figures, one being menaced by what looks like an ape man and another by a…Centrosaurus maybe?

“Once again came the whistling, piercing scream.”

This issue of Weird Tales is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.

One thought on “The Dust of Egypt

  1. Seabury Quinn seems to be in every issue. These guys must have written like machines. Of course, there’s the old story that L Ron Hubbard had a custom typewriter that had a special key for “the”, which would have saved hours of time each week.

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