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November 1938 issue

November 1938 issue

cover art by John Drew? David Berger?

Ward Hawkins, “Shadow of the Corpse-Maker”

Loring Dowst, “Murder Comes to Breakfast”  (Pendexter Riddle/The Human Question Mark)

Norvell W. Page, “Bringer of Fiery Death”

Paul Ernst, “Madam Bluebeard’s Home”

Nat Schachner, “Street of Creeping Terror’ 

Henry Treat Sperry, “Brotherhood of Destruction?

better image than previously posted

[updated 11/17/25]

October 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

October 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

Carroll John Daly, “Anyone’s Corpse” (Race Williams)

T.T. Flynn, “Burning Ice”

Fred MacIsaac, “Fall-Guy” (Rambler Murphy)

John Lawrence, “Escape Mechanism (Marquis of Broadway)

Cornell Woolrich, “Stuck with Murder”

Donald S. Aitken, “Two Heels Too Many” (Det. Pope)

[updated 11/13/25]

September 1947 issue

September 1947 issue

better image than previously posted

Francis K. Allan, “Murder Walks in My Sleep”

Ray Bradbury, “Wake for the Living”

Wyatt Blassingame, “Killer on the Keys” [reprinted from Detective Fiction Weekly, December 24, 1938]

Lix Agrabe, “The Hand”

Arthur Leo Zagat, “Terror-King of Bald Mountain”

Jimmy Nichols, “Captain Murder”

Charles W. Harbaugh, “Rise and Die!“

Joe Kent, “Coffin Count-Out”

[updated 2/4/26]