After creating cover illustrations for the November, 1950, and November, 1951 issues of Weird Tales, Freas’ next cover art appeared in the magazine’s issue of January, 1953.
Very different from his prior covers – neither satyr nor space-imps, this time! – Freas painted a cryptic message within an ornamented spiral filled with floating, demon-like faces.
Not as powerful as the prior two covers, but still inventive.
Follower by Joseph Eberle’s two-page interior illustration for Everil Worrell’s “Once there was a Little Girl”…
“In other days it was said, “Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live!”
(Art by Joseph Eberle)
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References, Reading, and More, Concerning Frank Kelly Freas
SFE – The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Wikimedia Commons (Cover Art) – 47 images
Comic Art Fans – some classic, “clickable” (relatively) full-size cover art
invaluable – The World’s Premier Auctions and Galleries – original art for sale
Mad Magazine Covers by Frank Kelly Freas – Doug Gilford’s Mad Magazine Cover Site