
cover art by Albert Drake


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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 –

cover art by Robert Stanley
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Francis K. Allan, “Two Down, Two to Die!”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “The Dead Who Kill Again”
Joe Kent, “Kill, Baby, Kill!”
Larry Holden, “Red Nightmare”
Robert Bloch, “A Head for His Bier!”
Talmage Powell, “To the Last Drop!”
Eric A. Provost, “Make Room for the Corpse!”

November 1943 issue
cover art by Gloria Stoll
Day Keene, “The Man from Hell”
Russell Gray, “I’ll Slay You Later”
Joe Kent, “Suicide Symphony”
William R. Cox, “Murder in Cinema City” (Tom Kincaid)
Francis K. Allan, “Mail from the Murdered”
Stuart Friedman, “Vengeance of the Voodoo Dancers”

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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]