April 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

April 1936 issue

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”

January 1947 issue

January 1947 issue

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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 –

March 1942 issue

March 1942 issue

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Day Keene, “The Corpse That Ran Away”

Carl Rathjen, “The Pied Piper of Destruction”

Donald G. Cormack, “There’s More Room in the Coffin!“

Joe Kent, “The Bleeding Sosibi”

Fredric Brown, “Death in the Dark”

Francis K. Allan, “Murder Has a Voice”

October 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

October 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Hugh B. Cave, “Mistress of the Dead”

Arthur J. Burks, “Death-Nymph”

George Alden Edson, “Terror Rides the Subway”

Chandler H. Whipple, “The Last Harcourt”

Paul Ernst, “The Devil’s Doorstep”

Arthur Leo Zagat, “Death Lands a Cargo”

Richard G. Huzarski, “From What Black Pit—”  (as by Richard C. Huzarski)

Maitland Scott, “True Strange Experiences: The Well of Horror”

February 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

February 1936 issue

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”

May 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1946 issue

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”