There’s a lot going on in this cover to the November 1943 issue of Amazing Stories, painted by prolific Chicago-based pulp artist Robert Gibson Jones (1889-1969), but possibly the stronger motivation is this interior illustration — amazingly uncredited — for Helmar Lewis’s story “The Aura of Death,” about a mad scientist who implants a woman’s soul in to a dog, or something. As an illustration it’s about as exemplary of the concept of “erotic mad science” as anything not involving a naked girl in a tube.

This edition of Amazing Stories is available to read and download from the Internet Archive.