November 1938 issue

November 1938 issue

cover art by John Drew? David Berger?

Ward Hawkins, “Shadow of the Corpse-Maker”

Loring Dowst, “Murder Comes to Breakfast”  (Pendexter Riddle/The Human Question Mark)

Norvell W. Page, “Bringer of Fiery Death”

Paul Ernst, “Madam Bluebeard’s Home”

Nat Schachner, “Street of Creeping Terror’ 

Henry Treat Sperry, “Brotherhood of Destruction?

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[updated 11/17/25]

September 1947 issue

September 1947 issue

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Francis K. Allan, “Murder Walks in My Sleep”

Ray Bradbury, “Wake for the Living”

Wyatt Blassingame, “Killer on the Keys” [reprinted from Detective Fiction Weekly, December 24, 1938]

Lix Agrabe, “The Hand”

Arthur Leo Zagat, “Terror-King of Bald Mountain”

Jimmy Nichols, “Captain Murder”

Charles W. Harbaugh, “Rise and Die!“

Joe Kent, “Coffin Count-Out”

[updated 2/4/26]

May 1942 issue

May 1942

Russell Gray, “The Dead Hang High!“

Richard Sale, “Corpse House”

Francis K. Allan, “They Want to Kill Me!“

Donald G. Cormack, “Paroled—to Death!”

William R. Cox, “Murder Deals the Cards” (Tom Kincaid)

Stewart Sterling, “Buttons for the Corpse Fund” (Rod Keeney) 

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[cover updated 2/3/26]

June 1934 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

June 1934

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

John H. Knox, “The Soul Eaters”

William B. Rainey, “The Black Pit”

Hugh B. Cave, “Death in the Dark”

G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “The Swamp Wolf”

Arthur Leo Zagat, “One Night of Terror”

Frances Bragg Middleton, “The Corpse Came Back!”

Wyatt Blassingame, “Death Blisters”

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December 1939 issue

December 1939

Russell Gray, “Murder Has One Eye” (Ben Bryn)

Francis James, “Flesh for Neptune’s Harem”

W. Wayne Robbins, “Evil Lives in My Hands”

Stewart Sterling, “Men with Melting Flesh”, given as “Men with Rotting Flesh” on the cover

Ralston Shields, “Death Deals in Souls”

Harrison Storm, “Corpse-Fever”  

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