cover by John Drew
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Cornell Woolrich, “Graves for the Living”
William Hines, “Strangler’s Sweetheart”
Nat Schachner, “The Plague of Evil Love”
Loren Long, “Beast Wife”
George Alden Edson, “Horror’s Bridal Chamber”
G. T. Fleming-Roberts, “The Mad Sexton of Satan’s Chapel”
~ Norman A. Daniels, “My Dying Day”, Rick Trent, ex-PI, ex-con, 1st person narrator, 2nd of 4 stories in BM
~ G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Don’t Look Behind You”, 4th of 8 stories in BM
~ John D. MacDonald, “Manhattan Horse Opera”, 1of 6 stories in BM
~ Tom Marvin, “Blood-Red and Beautiful”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Burt Sims, “To Each His Corpse”, ‘diminutive Clint Morgan, Hollywood eye’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Fergus Truslow, “Murder Makes the Cock Crow”, ‘Malott & McCool, L.A. gamblers’, 4th of 6 stories in BM
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cover art by Gloria Stoll
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~ W.T. Ballard, “Dressed to Kill”, ‘Sleepy Payne, gambler, 1st-person narrator’, last of 43 stories in BM
~ Merle Constiner, “The Witch of Birdfoot Ranch”, ‘Sheriff Britten; hill-country setting’, 9th of 12 stories in BM
~ G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “The Creeps”, ‘William Payne, clumsy oaf; in a town that has ‘the creeps’, 3rd of 8 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Carnie Kill”, 5th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 10th of 23 stories in BM
~ James R. McKenna, “Caliente”, ‘short-short; horse racing; 1st person narrator‘, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “A Noose for Little Nemo”, ‘Sergeant Joe Terry, home on leave’, 20th of 27 stories in BM
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