No, I don’t really get the point of it either

Chicks dig aquatic monsters
Bubbles and bandages
A nude blonde woman held in a makeshift stocks faces traumatic quadruple amputation from a rotary saw on Monroe Eisenberg's May 1940 cover for Horror Stories.

I do, however, have the pleasure of presenting a superior version of Monroe Eisenberg’s cover which I originally posted back in 2017. Looking under the cover, we find a rather nasty proto-A.S.F.R. story “Models for the Pain Sculptor” by “Russell Gray” (Bruno Fishcer). Here is my composite of introductory text and uncredited illustrations.

Helpless women models are turned into statues by a fiendish process in "Models for the Pain Sculptor" by Russell Gray.

I’m not sure why the yellowing of the cheap pulp paper has proceeded at different rates on (supposedly) facing pages.

This issue of Horror Stories is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.

4 thoughts on “No, I don’t really get the point of it either”

    • Those pulpsters of old were often surprisingly good at their craft.

      • Just read that story in full and you can say that again! Fantastic and utterly horrific stuff! Thanks for sharing!

  2. Wasn’t the woman on the cover all dressed up in riveted metal, with nowhere to go, a few posts ago?

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