
cover art by George Gross

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”

Kiss Me Deadly (United Artists, 1955). Fine/Very Fine on Linen. One Sheet (27″ X 41.25″).
the woman who dies at the start of the story was played by Cloris Leachman, in her first movie appearance

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

