Bubbles and bandages

No, I don't really get the point of it either
Born to be slaughtered
A woman atop a giant tiger's head and a zombie, or something, in Lawrence Sterne Stevens's cover for Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1949.

Lucy rides the tiger with diamonds and there’s a zombie, or something. Lawrence Sterne Stevens painted this cover for the October 1949 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries. Always worth it is an interior illustration by Virgil Finlay for “The Starkenden Quest” by Gilbert Collins (1890-1960).

A wrapped woman in a tower of bubbles in an illustration by Virgil Finlay.
“The recess in the wall contained a human figure — the body of a woman!”

This issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.

3 thoughts on “Bubbles and bandages”

  1. I know I’m gonna get mobbed by fans for this, but I just have to say it:

    Not the Starkenden Quest again! That’s all I ever heard. Starkenden Quest this and Starkenden Quest that. “Remember the Starkenden Quest?” How could I possibly forget with people mentioning it every goddamn moment of the day!

  3. I want to see a woman make a real dress like that. It’d make a super formal ball gown, definitely not something she’d see anyone else wearing.

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