cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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B.B. Fowler, “The Thing That Darkness Spawned”
Emerson Graves, “Murder for Blood”
Russell Gray, “School for Corpses” (Ben Bryn)
Stewart Sterling, “Ten Dead Coppers on the Wall”
Harrison Storm, “Death Visits the Fair”
Dane Gregory, “When the Black Dolls Die”
cover art by Robert Stanley
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Francis K. Allan, “Two Down, Two to Die!”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “The Dead Who Kill Again”
Joe Kent, “Kill, Baby, Kill!”
Larry Holden, “Red Nightmare”
Robert Bloch, “A Head for His Bier!”
Talmage Powell, “To the Last Drop!”
Eric A. Provost, “Make Room for the Corpse!”
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The Editor, “The Coroner Takes Over”
Day Keene, “A Hearse of Another Color” [Silent Smith (The Silver Fox)]
Felix Graham, “Heil, Werewolf!“
William R. Cox, “Spades for the Dead” (Tom Kincaid)
Fredric Brown, “Satan One-and-a-Half”
William Brandon, “Nightmare House”
Russell Gray, “The Caricature Murders”
December 1935 – second issue published
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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cover art by H.C. Murphy
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~ Charles G. Booth, “The Malevolent Bequest”, 3rd of 7 stories in BM
~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas, “White Midnight”, 3rd of 4 parts, ‘South Seas setting’, author’s only story in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “One Hour”, the Op [8th of 25], reprinted in The Return of the Continental Op (Dell mapback, 1947), reprinted in Nightmare Town (Knopf, 1999), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), reprinted in Zigzags of Treachery: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Continental Op, Vol. 1 (Steeger, 2023), 14th of 45 stories in BM
~ Harold Freeman Miners, “Twisted Trails”, ‘Western’, 3rd of 5 stories in BM
~ Frederick Moore, “Jerauld of Beranda Island”, “called ‘A detective story of the sea’”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ William Rollins, Jr., “The Ring of the Hand of the Dead”, see “Footsteps of the Dead” (May 1934), for sequel, 6th of 23 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “Numbers and Threads”, ‘Detective James McCoy, NYPD’, 27th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 28th of 49 total articles in BM
~ Merlin Moore Taylor, “Ivywild”, part 2 of 2, ‘family secret in ancient English castle’, 7th of 8 appearances in BM
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