
August 1938 – premiere issue
cover art by Norman Saunders

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Edith & Ejler Jacobson, “Dead Man—Killer” (Nathaniel Perry/The Bleeder)
Leon Byrne, “Society of the Singing Death” (Dan Holden)
Loring Dowst, “The Green Madness” (Pendexter Riddle/The Human Question Mark)
Ray Cummings, “The Case of the Skinless Corpses” (George Roberts)
Donald G. Cormack, “Butcher on the Waterfront”
John Kobler, “Bubbles of Murder” (Peter Quest)

cover art by Tom Lovell
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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”

cover art by Tom Lovell
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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 –