May 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

The Editor, “Mystery’s Dark Portals”

Lauri Wirta, “The Lonely Dead”

Cyril Plunkett, “If I Should Die—”

George William Rae, “It’s Your Neck!“ 

Day Keene, “Quietly My Hangnoose Waits” (Matt Mercer) 

Mayan & Jakobsson, “Macabre Museum”

Ralph Eldred, “The Burning Snow”

John Corbett, “This Way Out”

Ken Lewis, “My Kingdom for a Corpse”

Dana McGuire, “Till Death Do Us Part”

Talmage Powell, “Each Man Kills—”

C. William Harrison, “Shadow of a Slayer”

Framed in Guilt x 6

1949 Mill hardcover

his second published novel

Published by Hennel Locke, London, 1949

1952 Graphic reissue – better image than previously posted

1953 Harlequin reissue – cover art by Roy Hewetson

1966 MacFadden reissue

1972 Triphammer UK reissue