
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
[cover updated 6/9/26]

March 1940 – second of just three issues
cover art attributed to John A. Coughlin
cover repurposed from Jan./Feb. 1938 issue


cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer
better image than previously posted
The Editors, “Meeting the Story-Maker – Donald G. Cormack”
Ray King, “Brides for Murdered Men”
Dane Gregory, “Golden Lady of Death” (Rocky Rhodes)
Russell Gray, “Girls for the Coffin Syndicate” (Ben Bryn)
W. Wayne Robbins, “Mad Is the Flesh-Master!“
Donald G. Cormack, “Satan’s Surgeon”, given as “Corpse Surgeon” on the cover (Tom Cardigan)
(cover art repurposed from January 1935 issue)

cover art by Robert Stanley
better image than previously posted
Francis K. Allan, “What Makes Sammy Kill?”
Thorne Lee, “It’s in the Bag!”
Jimmy Nichols, “Cops Are Born”
Robert Turner, “Party to Murder!”
John D. FitzGerald, “Too Mean to Live!”
Arthur Leo Zagat,“Death-Dance of the Broken Dolls”
Talmage Powell, “Blood in Your Eye!”
Cyril Plunkett, “Deadly Is My Sleep”
Wilbur S. Peacock, “Copperhead”
Dale Clark, “Corpses, Incorporated” (Socrates Bean)
Jhan Robbins, “The Waxwork Wake”