
cover art by Allen Anderson
better image than previously posted

cover art by Tom Lovell
better image than previously posted
Arthur Leo Zagat, Girl for the Torture God
Dale Clark, “Death’s Painted Priestess”
Paul Ernst, Satan’s Servant
Emerson Graves. “Come with Me to Hell!”
Roger Howard Norton, “Desire of the Undead”
Wyatt Blassingame, My Love Brings Death!
Arthur J. Burks, Invitation to the Morgue
William B. Rainey, “Prey of the Beast-Woman”

cover art by Albert Drake
better image than previously posted
~ Dale Clark, “The Corpse with the Bloody Nose”, last of 28 O’Hanna stories, last of 32 appearances in BM
~ Merle Constiner, “Dead on Arrival”, ‘Luther McGavock, private detective; he works Atherton Browne who heads a Memphis-based agency, 10th of 11 of the McG stories; usually rural setting’, reprinted in Let the Dead Alone: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Luther McGavock (Steeger, 2020), 11th of 12 stories in BM
~ Robert C. Dennis, “Out of This World”, 2nd of 6 with ‘William (Willie) Carmody, Confidential Investigations & Margaret O’Leary, writer, Hollywood, WC is first-person narrator’, 2nd of 10 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “A Murder for Mac”, reprinted in Hot-House Homicide: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Mortimer Jones (Steeger, 2925), 2nd of 5 with PI Mortimer Jones, 3rd of 9 stories in BM
~ Coleman Meyer, “You’ll Never Grow Old”, ‘Hill Cartright, auto racer, tells it’, author’s 1st of 2 stories in BM
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January 15, 1934 British edition
cover art by James Nivison McArdle – same as the US edition
contains all but two of the US edition’s stories