As with many other shudder pulp covers, I’ve blogged the January-February 1940 cove of this one before, but thanks to the Internet Archive, I can now peek under the cover to see what of interest might lie therein. I turns out that in this issue there was not one but two stories of aquatic monsters that lure comely young women to various kinds of watery doom. Here are my cross page composites for (1) “Girls Who Lust for Death” by “Russell Gray” (a pseudonym for Bruno Fischer, 1908-1992).
And “Pray That She Stays with the Dead” by “Donald Dale,” a pseudonym for Mary Dale Buckner, a writer about whom I have been able to find out very little, although it is possible to buy a contemporary collection of her stories.
There are no artist attributions, sadly.
This issue of Terror Tales is available to read or download at the Internet Archive.
It definitely looks like Faustus had something to do with this old pulp. heh.
Looks like that poor blonde at the bottom of the page isn’t doing too well. At least she’s still got a smile on her face
These guys are especially fiendish. The miss in the cage has had her nipples surgically removed, skin grafted and allowed to fully heal before they proceed to the next stage of their vile plan for her.