September 1944 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll

September 1944 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll

Day Keene, “Seven Keys to Murder”

Bruno Fischer, The Bride Wore Black

Henry Cramer, “Bon-Bons with the Borgias”

R. Sprague Hall, “Vengeance of the Staked Dead”

Curtiss T. Gardner, “You’ll Freeze in Hell!”

Nathaniel Nitkin, “Curtain-Call for the Corpse”

C. William Harrison, “Dig My Grave Deep!”

Russell Gray, “My Friend—The Killer!”

May 1937 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

May 1937 issue

cover by Tom Lovell

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Arthur Leo Zagat, “Satan Calls His Children”

Donald Dale, “I See with Dead Men’s Eyes”

Paul Ernst, “Mate for the Thing in the Box”

Ray Cummings, “House of Horrible Laughter”

Ralston Shields, “The Blood Kiss”

Russell Gray, “Girls for the Pain Dance” 

March 1947 issue ~ cover art by Robert Stanley

March 1947 issue

cover art by Robert Stanley

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Francis K. Allan, “What Makes Sammy Kill?”

Thorne Lee, “It’s in the Bag!”

Jimmy Nichols, “Cops Are Born”

Robert Turner, “Party to Murder!”

John D. FitzGerald, “Too Mean to Live!”

Arthur Leo Zagat,“Death-Dance of the Broken Dolls”

Talmage Powell, “Blood in Your Eye!”

Cyril Plunkett, “Deadly Is My Sleep”

Wilbur S. Peacock, “Copperhead”

Dale Clark, “Corpses, Incorporated” (Socrates Bean)

Jhan Robbins, “The Waxwork Wake”

February 1939 issue

February 1939 issue

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Edith & Ejler Jacobson, “Dead Man—Killer” (Nathaniel Perry/The Bleeder)

Leon Byrne, “Society of the Singing Death” (Dan Holden)

Loring Dowst, “The Green Madness” (Pendexter Riddle/The Human Question Mark)

Ray Cummings, “The Case of the Skinless Corpses” (George Roberts)

Donald G. Cormack, “Butcher on the Waterfront”

John Kobler, “Bubbles of Murder” (Peter Quest)

October 1937 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

October 1937 issue

cover art by Tom Lovell

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The Editor, “White Devils and Black”

Arthur Leo Zagat, “Satan Calls the Strike”

John Kobler, History’s Gallery of Monsters: Belle Gunness, the “Black Widow of Laporte” 

Francis James, “Furnaces of the Damned”

Ray Cummings, “The Horror at Black Glen”

Nat Schachner, “Children of Murder”

Russell Gray, “Death Came Calling”