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Via a mailing list: The Washington Post reports on Plato’s Cream Pie and Other Horror Delicacies from the latest incarnation of Weird Tales.

WT’s April cover is a Morrill painting of a ghostly, hollow-eyed sorcerer clad in a black gown with a chain belt that holds two drooling skulls. That’s a gem, but it can’t quite match Morrill’s February cover, which showed a buxom blonde in a tiny red dress clasped in the tentacles of a giant octopus who is leering lasciviously.