
better image than previously posted


cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer
better image than previously posted
Hugh B. Cave, “Dark Bondage”
H. M. Appel, “Harvest of Hate”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “Madman’s Bride”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Death Walks in Paradise”
James Duncan, “Food for Coffins”
Mindret Lord, “Hostage to Pain”
Monroe Karasik, “Unholy Eyes”
(cover repurposed for April 1940 issue)

March 1940 – second of just three issues
cover art attributed to John A. Coughlin
cover repurposed from Jan./Feb. 1938 issue


cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer
better image than previously posted
The Editors, “Meeting the Story-Maker – Donald G. Cormack”
Ray King, “Brides for Murdered Men”
Dane Gregory, “Golden Lady of Death” (Rocky Rhodes)
Russell Gray, “Girls for the Coffin Syndicate” (Ben Bryn)
W. Wayne Robbins, “Mad Is the Flesh-Master!“
Donald G. Cormack, “Satan’s Surgeon”, given as “Corpse Surgeon” on the cover (Tom Cardigan)
(cover art repurposed from January 1935 issue)

cover art by Gloria Stoll
Day Keene, “Seven Keys to Murder”
Bruno Fischer, The Bride Wore Black
Henry Cramer, “Bon-Bons with the Borgias”
R. Sprague Hall, “Vengeance of the Staked Dead”
Curtiss T. Gardner, “You’ll Freeze in Hell!”
Nathaniel Nitkin, “Curtain-Call for the Corpse”
C. William Harrison, “Dig My Grave Deep!”
Russell Gray, “My Friend—The Killer!”