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A bit more on that October issue

We covered the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales a bit yesterday, but it’s a bit of a rich issue for me and so I thought I’d give it a second post. For one thing, one of Hugh Rankin’s interior illustrations, this one to E. Hoffman Price’s story “Saladin’s Throne-Rug,” deserves a place of honor as a very early example of a tube girl:


In the glowing, rosy-amber jar was the shapely form of Djeanne Hanoum!”

This particular issue also marked the first-ever publication of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story “Pickman’s Model,” and Rankin would do his best to bring the product of Lovecraft’s imagination to visual life:

“He had painted a monstrous being on that awful canvas.”

But by God, Eliot, it was a photograph from life!”

This issue of Weird Tales is available to read or download from the Internet Archive.

Fire can be a menace

And metal garments are more conductive than cloth, so that young lady is definitely in an uncomfortable situation in Margaret Brundage’s illustration of the February 1934 cover of Weird Tales. Hugh Rankin makes an appearance in the interior with an almost ethereally-beautiful illustration for E. Hoffman Price’s story “Tarbis of the Lake.”

“She was one flight below and centuries away.”

This issue of Weird Tales is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.