September 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

September 1936 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

better image than previously posted

John Lawrence, “The Corpse That Didn’t Die” (Drago of HQ Dept)

Leslie T. White, “Ashes of the Living” (Ted Naughton, arson dick)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Vanishing Venus” (Carter Cold, MD)

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Into Thin Air” (Kip Lacey)

William E. Barrett, “A Man’s Last Hours” (Blue Barrel)

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”