Slime, Blobs, Jellies, & Ooze on the Cover of Weird Tales

I have found three covers of Weird Tales showing slime, blobs, jellies, and ooze. You have seen two of these in the past few weeks. I included the third in my catalog of Woman and Monster covers, from January 3, 2014.

One Hundred Years Ago This Month . . .

Weird Tales, March 1953. Cover story: "Ooze" by Anthony M. Rud. Cover art by Richard R. Epperly. It looks like an octopus. It's actually a giant amoeba.

     "Now it touched her. She shrieked. Ice-cold, wet, like rotting slime--it touched her--closer about her--closer!"

Weird Tales, August 1937. Cover story: "Thing of Darkness" by G.G. Pendarves. Cover art by Margaret Brundage. March is Women's History Month, even though we don't know what a woman is anymore and can't define her. Where's a biologist like H.G. Wells when you need him? Anyway, here's a cover with both a cover story and cover art by women.

Seventy Years Ago This Month . . .

Weird Tales, March 1953. Cover story: "Slime" by Joseph Payne Brennan. Cover art by Virgil Finlay.

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