Is the woman blue because she’s cold?

Rarely would Margaret Brundage hesitate to get as much female nudity as she could onto the covers of Weird Tales, which was no doubt good for Depression-era sales. This issue also contains a piece of interior art by Jack Binder (1902-1986) would would go on to greater fame as a Golden Age comics artist. The picture illustrates Arlton Eadle’s story “The Carnival of Death.”

“She felt an icy hand on her shoulder.”

Also in this issue, a very early story by Robert Bloch (he would have been at most eighteen when he wrote it), “The Shambler from the Stars.”

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