Abstract
When copies of the Collier's Weekly maga zine issue dated June 6, 1925 arrived in mailboxes and on news stands across the United States, purchasers were confronted with a cover image that was both puzzling and unusually dark and mysteri ous for the magazine: a gaunt, dark-skinned man sporting a goatee and mustache, wearing a weird type of red headgear, with two rather suspi cious men and two women peering out from behind him (Figure 1). only thing prospective readers knew for certain was that the image was in some way connected to a fiction announced by large black type at the bottom of the cover: The Professor's House A NEW NOVEL by WILLA CATHER. What did Collier's readers make of this cover? More
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