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Weirder sacrifice

An all-nude version of Penerotic's recreation of a Margaret Brundage Weird Tales cover.

Just an alternate version of yesterday’s Penerotic pulp recreation, which I’m sure all you merry perverts will enjoy.

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New pulp recreation from Penerotic: Weird Sacrifice

In a recreation of a famous Margaret Brundage cover, artist Penerotic recreates a scene of three voluptuous women sacrificing a third on an altar.

Artist Penerotic continues his string of pulp recreations for Erotic Mad Science, here doing his take on a famous Margaret Brundage cover for Weird Tales.

I have made this image available in high resolution. Click to display or right-click to download.

You can follow Penerotic on Twitter at @penerotic, on Instagram at @penerotica and if you like his art like me, you can also support him on Patreon.

Please do not alter or reproduce the recreation above without consent of the creators. Thank you and stay well!

Beyond the Phoenix

A cover by Margaret Brundage for Weird Tales, October 1938.

Another Margaret Brundage cover for Weird Tales, this one all light and air for Henry Kuttner’s story “Beyond the Phoneix.” It appeared in October 1938. Kuttner’s story itself had some unusual art by Jim Mooney (1919-2018), who would later make it big in comics, being one of the principal artists behind Supergirl and also working as an inker on Spiderman.

Illustration by Jim Mooney for Henry Kuttner's story "Beyond the Phoneix," which appeared in Weird Tales in October 1938.
“The two figures moved in a grotesque sarabande to the tune of the evil drumming and the pipes.”

Perhaps there was an unusual tang in the air that autumn, because the Weird Tales editors seem to have been willing to go a touch more erotic than usual in their choice of illustrations. Right inside the front cover we find this somewhat atypical creation by Virgil Finlay:

An inside-the-front cover illustration by Virgil Finlay that appeared in October 1938.
“O sweet and far, from cliff and scar,/ The horns of Elfland faintly blowing. — Tennyson”

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

Two takes on a theme

This woman with the wolves (and clothed only with her hair) on the September 1927 issue of Weird Tales is the work of C.C. Senf. Evidently it was a theme that the editors liked, because they would commission Margaret Brundage to do something very similar for the March 1933 cover.

And to perhaps no one’s surprise, Seabury Quinn has stories in both issues.

Both the September 1927 and the March 1933 issues of Weird Tales are available to be read at and downloaded from the Internet Archive.

The Black Colossus is looking a bit pale

A Margarget Brundage cover for the June 1933 issue of Weird Tales, visiting some familiar themes. Illustrating an interior story, “Golden Blood” by Jack Williamson, is work by James Allen St. John (1873-1957), famous as an illustrator of the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs and regarded by many as “the Godfather of American Fantasy Art.”

“The woman’s body was yellow as the snake, and had something of the serpent’s sinuous grace.”

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

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.

“Stop squirming and be sacrificed, young lady!”

“You know how tiring it is for me to keep my left arm strategically positioned in the viewer’s line of sight like this?” Margaret Brundage illustrating Robert E. Howard on the July 1936 cover of Weird Tales. Virgil Finlay’s pencil was also busy, providing a noble profile and a pair of shapely buttocks for C.L. Moore’s story “Lost Paradise.”

“From a world like a jewel we come.”

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

Daughter of Irma Vep

This early (October 1933) Margaret Brundage Weird Tales cover might be among he most iconic images. Jayem Wilcox provides some interesting (and perhaps unfortunate) interior illustration to Robert E. Howard’s story “The Pool of the Black One.”


“Across the grassy level a giant black was striding, carrying a squirming captive under one arm.”

This issue of Weird Tales is available for reading and download at the Internet Archive.

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.