Nightmare Alley. William Lindsay Gresham. New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc. 1946. First edition. Original dust jacket; art by A. F. Arnold.
Scarce macabre carnival themed thriller. “Loneliness came over him, like an avalanche of snow. He was alone. Where he had always wanted to be. You can only trust yourself. There’s a rat buried deep in everybody and they’ll rat on you if they get pushed far enough.”
cover art by James Avati
first film adaptation in 1947
second in 2021
February 1936 issue
cover art by Tom Lovell
Carroll John Daly, “Corpse & Co.” (Race Williams)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Cop” (Needle Mike)
T.T. Flynn, “The Bride of the Beast” (Steve Waring)
Donald S. Aitken, “Postlude to Murder”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Flying Coffin” (Kip Lacey of Central Airways)
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cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Brazen Ghost”
Frederick C. Davis, “Tall, Dark, and Deadly”
Robert Turner, “Murder on My Mitts”
John D. MacDonald, “High Walls of Hate”
Johanas L. Bouma, “Homicidal Harmony”
Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Murchison Got a Gun”
L.S. Goldsmith, “Black Spots of Doom”
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