cover by John Drew
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Cornell Woolrich, “Graves for the Living”
William Hines, “Strangler’s Sweetheart”
Nat Schachner, “The Plague of Evil Love”
Loren Long, “Beast Wife”
George Alden Edson, “Horror’s Bridal Chamber”
G. T. Fleming-Roberts, “The Mad Sexton of Satan’s Chapel”
April 1933 – second issue
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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T.T. Flynn, “The Devil’s Derby” (Mr. Maddox)
Raymond Chandler, “Pearls are a Nuisance”
Fred MacIsaac, “Murder at the Beauty Show” (Rambler Murphy)
John Lawrence, “Old Wives’ Tale” (Marquis of Broadway)
Dale Clark, “Mercy Killing”
with a simple listing of his name on the cover, along with those of his colleagues, the editors could not have been aware that they were publishing one of Raymond Chandler’s masterpieces. The Big Sleep had been published just two months before, on February 6.
