February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

February 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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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”

September 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

September 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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D.L. Champion, “Mexican Slayride” (Mariano Mercado)

Dale Clark, “False Colors” (Plates O’Rion)

Merle Constiner, “The Affair of the Four Skeletons” (The Dean)

Mel Watt, “Killer Come Back to Me” (Sam Coad)

Bruno Fischer, “I’ll Slay You in My Dreams”

Ken Lewis, “Parlor, Bedroom and Death”

October 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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“A Sleight Case of Murder” (Jeffrey Wren) by G.T. Fleming-Roberts

“Thanks for the Lovely Funeral” (Bill Brent) by Frederick C. Davis

“A Corpse Grows in Brooklyn” (Insp. Allhoff) by D.L. Champion

“Pool of Death” by Henry Norton

“Pass the Bullets, Miranda” by Ken Lewis

“Typical Killer” by Julius Long