February 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

February 1936 issue

cover by Tom Lovell

better image than previously posted

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”

The Wanton x 5

1959 Horowitz release in Australia

cover art by Barye Phillips – better image than previously posted

1959 Signet paperback original in the US

International Edition Series #10 December 1961, March 1965

cover design by Grant Roberts

1966 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1968 New English Library/Four Square Books release in the UK

By the author of the story that became It’s a Wonderful Life

Philip Van Doren Stern (September 10, 1900 – July 31, 1984) was an American writer, editor, and Civil War historian whose story “The Greatest Gift“, published in 1943, inspired the classic Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).


1951 Farrar hardcover as Love Is the One with Wings

1951 Signet reissue – first paperback release

published in the UK in 1952 as It’s Always Too Late to Mend and in 1955 as Manhunt

1960 Berkley reissue

cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)