Menaced by the blob

Whatever instructions Margaret Brundage got for the monster on the cover of the August 1937 issue of Weird Tales must have been pleasingly vague. Virgil Finlay is busy on the interior providing a bit of bonus cheesecake, this time illustrating Frank Owen’s story “The Mandarin’s Ear.”

“Her body was like warm white velvet.”

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