
1954 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Ray Johnson

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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The Editor, “Mystery’s Dark Portals”
Lauri Wirta, “The Lonely Dead”
Cyril Plunkett, “If I Should Die—”
George William Rae, “It’s Your Neck!“
Day Keene, “Quietly My Hangnoose Waits” (Matt Mercer)
Mayan & Jakobsson, “Macabre Museum”
Ralph Eldred, “The Burning Snow”
John Corbett, “This Way Out”
Ken Lewis, “My Kingdom for a Corpse”
Dana McGuire, “Till Death Do Us Part”
Talmage Powell, “Each Man Kills—”
C. William Harrison, “Shadow of a Slayer”

his second published novel

Published by Hennel Locke, London, 1949

1952 Graphic reissue – better image than previously posted

1953 Harlequin reissue – cover art by Roy Hewetson



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Day Keene, “Rhapsody in Blood”
Francis K. Allan, “The Dead Are Not Beautiful”
Frederick C. Davis, “Corpses in the Rain”
Fredric Brown, “A Lock of Satan’s Hair”
Robert Turner, “Music for the Murder Maestro”

July 1944 issue
Day Keene, “Brother, Can You Spare a Grave?“
Frederick C. Davis, “The Little Green Door of Doom”
Stewart Toland, “His Beard Was Long and Very Black”
Curtiss T. Gardner, “In Bed We Die” (Val Vickers)
Duane Yarnell, “Claws for the Tiger Girl”
Francis K. Allan, “You’ll Never Know Who Killed You”

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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”