October 1933 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

October 1933

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Norvell W. Page, “The Dance of the Skeletons”
John H. Knox, “The Monster in the Dark”
Hugh B. Cave, “The Graveless Dead”
Robert C. Blackmon, “Gate of the Two Coffins”
Franklin H. Martin, Snake-Man
Edgar Wallace, “The Murderer of Many Names” [Henry Arthur Milton (The Ringer)], Again the Ringer, Hodder 1929

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]