cover by Tom Lovell
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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”
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”
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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”
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