"Foul Vampire! Accursed Lamia!"

Most stories that appeared in Weird Tales received accompanying artwork, usually on the title page. Clark Ashton Smith's "The End of the Story" is no different, featuring this illustration, which depicts the confrontation between Hilaire, abbot of Périgon, and the lamia, Nycea. I can't quite make out the signature of the artist at the bottom right, so I'm unable to identify him with certainty. I think the initials are "HR," which, if so, suggests the artist is Hugh Rankin, who illustrated several of H.P. Lovecraft's during the same time period.

Regardless, it's a very odd illustration. From the text of the story itself, I assume it depicts the abbot brandishing his aspergillum, which Smith calls (incorrectly) an aspergillus – the world's tiniest aspergillum, it would seem!