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The Editor, “White Devils and Black”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “Satan Calls the Strike”
John Kobler, History’s Gallery of Monsters: Belle Gunness, the “Black Widow of Laporte”
Francis James, “Furnaces of the Damned”
Ray Cummings, “The Horror at Black Glen”
Nat Schachner, “Children of Murder”
Russell Gray, “Death Came Calling”
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Arthur Leo Zagat, Girl for the Torture God
Dale Clark, “Death’s Painted Priestess”
Paul Ernst, Satan’s Servant
Emerson Graves. “Come with Me to Hell!”
Roger Howard Norton, “Desire of the Undead”
Wyatt Blassingame, My Love Brings Death!
Arthur J. Burks, Invitation to the Morgue
William B. Rainey, “Prey of the Beast-Woman”
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Day Keene, “Married to Murder!“
John Raymond English, “Black Monday”
Joe Kent, “Collect for the Corpse!“
Ken Lewis, “The Path Points Down”
Dale Clark, “The Possessed”
Everett M. Webber, “Crowbait”
Francis K. Allan, “The Face of Fear”
Talmage Powell, “Swamp Fever”
Stewart Toland, “Murder Has a Hundred Faces”
– Peacock listed on cover but not in contents –
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Day Keene, “The Corpse That Ran Away”
Carl Rathjen, “The Pied Piper of Destruction”
Donald G. Cormack, “There’s More Room in the Coffin!“
Joe Kent, “The Bleeding Sosibi”
Fredric Brown, “Death in the Dark”
Francis K. Allan, “Murder Has a Voice”
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~ John Baer, “A Wholesaler in Crime”, ‘compete mystery novelette’, his last of 24 stories in BM
~ Edwin Baird, “This Way Out”, short-short, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Peter Chance, “The Scarlet Scalpel”, only appearance in BM
~ Ray(mond King) Cummings, “T. McGuirk – Detective”, ‘5th of 14 McGuirk stories, billed as “the quaintest character in the Underworld” & honest, more of less’, 5th of 15 stories in BM
~ Arthur Fetter, “The Treachery of Spike McGuire”, ‘A Queer Glimpse of the Underworld’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Henry W. Fisher, “Odd Bits”, ‘short-lived feature; not indexed past this point’
~ Geoffrey Foster, “Bedlam”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Kenneth Fuessle, “Superstition”, ‘Adventure in Weird Surroundings’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ K. Godwin, “Conscience”, ‘Billed as BM’s “first one-act play”’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Robert Lee Heiser, “The World’s Greatest Mystery”, ‘true account of the murder of Clare Stone, a child, in Baltimore; would occupy readers for some time; not indexed beyond this point’
~ William Rollins, Jr., “A Song of India”, ‘billed as an ‘Oriental adventure in a small town’, 3rd of 23 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Camp Dix Mystery”, 12th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 13th of 49 total articles in BM
~ Merlin Moore Taylor, “One of Five”, part 1 of 2, 2nd of 8 appearances in BM
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Hugh B. Cave, “Death Holds for Ransom
Dale Clark, “My Friend—The Corpse”
Paul Ernst, “Embrace of the Fire God”
Roger Howard Norton, “The Woman Hell Gave Me”
Wyatt Blassingame, “Slaves of the Tomb Maidens”
Ben Judson, “The Beast in Her Bed!“
Emerson Graves, “Pale Daughters of Death”
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