There were many monsters on the cover of Weird Tales over the years, but most of those monster covers showed the monster menacing a human being, very often a woman. You can see some of them in my previous postings:
- The Eternal Triangle: Man, Woman, Monster
- Woman and Monster
- Man and Monster
- Trees and Other Plants on the Cover of Weird Tales
- Machines on the Cover of Weird Tales
- Undersea Scenes on the Cover of Weird Tales
- Reaching Hands
- Red Robes and Cultists
There will be at least a couple of more categories with monsters, but the following three covers don't fit into any of them, for they show monsters alone with nary a human in sight.
Weird Tales, July 1948. Cover story: "Twilight of the Gods" by Edmond Hamilton (?). Cover art by Matt Fox. Who else could have created such a phantasmagoria? |
Weird Tales, July 1949. Cover story: None. Cover art by Matt Fox. |
Text and captions copyright 2014, 2023 Terence E. Hanley
I would never have imagined that picture for "The Hog". I like it though.
ReplyDeleteI liked the July 1949 cover too.