October 1949 issue

October 1949 issue

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Lauri Wirta, “Devil’s Island—New Style”

Ted Palmer: Popular Films

Talmage Powell, “Time of the Demon”

Frederick Blakeslee: Adventures into the Unknown

John D. MacDonald, “Last Rendezvous”

Day Keene, “The Laughing Dead”

Larry Holden, “Bloody Night!“

Margaret St. Clair, “Nightmare Lady”

Lix Agrabee, “The Corpse Came Back!“

Mayan & Jakobsson: Macabre Museum

Benjamin Siegel, “While the Killers Wait…”

Skippy Adelman, “The Crimson Pool”

William Campbell Gault, “Return to Terror”

The Editor: Mystery’s Dark Portals

March 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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cover art by Rafael DeSoto

~ D.L. Champion, “Death for a Dollar”, 13th of 26 with Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 15th of 30 stories in BM

~ Leslie Charteris, “Murder Goes to Market”, 2nd of 2 Saint stories, last appearance in BM

~ Dale Clark, “Hands Down”, 16th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 18th of 32 stories in BM

~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Clues in the Night”, 14th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps, 17th of 20 stories in BM

~ Clyde Morehead, “Tears for Little Willie”, ‘short-short’, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Ted Stratton, “Call the Undertaker”, ‘Trigg’, 1st of 2 stories in BM

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