November 1937 issue ~ cover art by Stockton Mulford

November 1937 issue

cover art by Stockton Mulford

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~ W.T. Ballard, “Friends Sometimes Kill”, “Don Tomaso Sherman, narrator: 2nd DTS story”, 28th of 43 stories in BM

~ H.W. Guernsey, “Late Harvest”, ‘mushrooms, e.g. morel (nightshade)’, 2nd of 4 stories in BM

~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Burial Mound”, 4th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida

~ Roger Torrey, “One Good Turn”, ‘Shean Connell, private peep; 3rd of 4 SC stories’, reprinted in Just Nice Girl: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Shean Connell, Vol. 1 (Steeger, 2025), 31st of 50 appearances in BM

~ Edward S. Williams, “Leave the Door Open”, ‘Peter Nelson, young MD, in the slums’, 3rd of 8 appearances in BM

~ Cornell Woolrich, “Cab, Mister?”, 7th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM

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September 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

September 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

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”