cover art by William Reusswig
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Oscar Schisgall, “The Death Scream”
Edward Parrish Ware, “The Skull of Judgment” (Det. Tug Norton)
J. Allan Dunn, “Out of the Night”
Frederick Nebel, “Phantom Fingers” (Cardigan)
Carroll John Daly, “The Curtain of Frost” (Vee Brown)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Murder Digs Its Grave”
November 1944 issue (combined with 10 Story Mystery)
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W. Ryerson Johnson, “Killers’ Kingdom”
William R. Cox, “Hell Comes in Bottles!” (Tom Kincaid)
Ray Bradbury, “It Burns Me Up!“
Francis K. Allan, “Sing a Song of Murder”
Frederick C. Davis, “Doctor Diggory’s Glass Grave”
Wayne Rogers, “School for Corpses”
Ken Lewis, “Die, and You’ll Wear Diamonds!”
David X. Manners, “Lie Down, You’re Dead!“
Cyril Plunkett , “They Kill by Night!”
cover art by William Reusswig
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Carroll John Daly, “As Midnight Strikes” (Vee Brown)
J. Allan Dunn, “The Saffron Shadow” (Fang Li)
Frederick Nebel, “The Dead Don’t Die” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Torso Trap” (Sam Beckett)
July 1944 issue
Day Keene, “Brother, Can You Spare a Grave?“
Frederick C. Davis, “The Little Green Door of Doom”
Stewart Toland, “His Beard Was Long and Very Black”
Curtiss T. Gardner, “In Bed We Die” (Val Vickers)
Duane Yarnell, “Claws for the Tiger Girl”
Francis K. Allan, “You’ll Never Know Who Killed You”
May 15, 1923 issue
cover art by A. Rose
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~ Raymond J. Brown, “Phantom Bullets”, part 4 of 5, only work in BM
~ Jack Carlton, “Four Shots”, ‘cemetery tale’, 1of 2 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Three Gun Terry”, 1st of 2 with PI Terry Mack, 4th of 71 appearances in BM, reprinted in The Black Mask Boys (1985, Morrow). Reprinted in The Man in the Shadows: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Terry Mack (Steeger Books, 2021).
~ Carl Glick, “In the Grey Dawn”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Charles T. Jordan, “A Matter of Postage”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Herman Petersen, “In Mutiny”, ‘A weird thing’, 7th of 20 stories in BM
~ Robert Russell, “The Snake”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Clue in the Turf”, ‘“Honest John” Brunen, murder victim & Ellis Parker, detective’, 8th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 8th of 49 total articles in BM
~ Joe Taylor, “Ragged Seams”, 8th of 12 tales in ‘My Underworld’ series, 9th of 13th appearances in BM
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