Sometime around 1940 Weird Tales came to rely significantly less on titillation to sell its literary wares, but even so it could occasionally bring the sexy, as in the cover painted by the obscure W. H. Silvey for the July 1953 edition.
This issue of Weird Tales is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.
Wow! This cover is fantastic! Certainly doesn’t seem like this poor dame is getting out of that peril!
I can’t imagine it’s tied to any story inside?
That should be W H Silvey, not W H Slivey.
Change of editors, and the departure of Lovecraft, Howard, and (for all intents and purposes) Smith.
“I don’t think this is what spooning is supposed to be!”