The 85 Weirdest, Day 20: Margaret Brundage
The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!
At the very peak of Weird Tales‘s classic run in the 1930s, the magazine’s visceral appeal was arguably due as much to MARGARET BRUNDAGE’s (1900–1976) lush cover paintings as to the incredible prose behind them. She showed us violently smoldering viragos bearing whips, decades before the boom in the gothic fetish craze; she showed us a “Bat-Girl” in black leather, years before the comics gave us such a character; she showed us art-deco skulls long before anyone ever imagined a heavy-metal album jacket.
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