Hero versus snake

Margaret Brundage illustrates one of Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories on the August 1934 cover of Weird Tales. In the interior. H.R. Hammond provides an undead woman (as I read it) for Hugh B. Cave’s story “The Isle of Dark Magic.”

“Before him the statue was in motion and the blue flame in the dish became a wavering, living tongue of fire.”

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

Some tropical menace

Why go exploring a tropical island in your clingy nightgown? You’ll attract racial menace that way, as Margaret Brundage illustrates on this June 1934 cover of Weird Tales.

The interior art for this issue is less spectacular than others, though there is an interesting piece by the mysterious H.R. Hammond at the head of another early Robert E. Howard story, “The Haunter of the Ring.”

“Only for brief instants could it drive her spirit into the void and animate her form.”

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

A mix of the unfortunate and the not

Okay, so the racial not-so-subtext isn’t great, but at least we get to see Margaret Brundage at work on more kinky whipping, a subject for which it seems she has something of a feel. This April 1934 issue of Weird Tales has an early story by C.L. Moore among other pulp fiction luminaries.

The E. Hoffman Price story, “Satan’s Garden,” which I believe the Brundage cover also illustrates, has some tasty interior art by someone named H.R. Hammond, about whom I’m afraid I haven’t been able to find out very much at all.

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