May 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

The Editor, “Mystery’s Dark Portals”

Lauri Wirta, “The Lonely Dead”

Cyril Plunkett, “If I Should Die—”

George William Rae, “It’s Your Neck!“ 

Day Keene, “Quietly My Hangnoose Waits” (Matt Mercer) 

Mayan & Jakobsson, “Macabre Museum”

Ralph Eldred, “The Burning Snow”

John Corbett, “This Way Out”

Ken Lewis, “My Kingdom for a Corpse”

Dana McGuire, “Till Death Do Us Part”

Talmage Powell, “Each Man Kills—”

C. William Harrison, “Shadow of a Slayer”

February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

February 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Damon Knight, “Slayer’s Solo”

Day Keene, “Doc Egg’s Graveyard Reunion” (Doc Egg)   

Ejler Jacobson, “The Little Red Murder School”

Ken Lewis, “Country Cadaver”

Talmage Powell, “Stay as Dead as You Are”

Ken Kessler: “The Crimson Thread”

Robert Bloch, “The Noose Hangs High”

John Corbett, “Hound of Hell”

Milton T. Land, “Home to the Kill” 

R. Sprague Hall, “The Case of the Walking God”

[cover updated 2/4/26]