April 1940 issue

April 1940 issue

cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer

better image than previously posted

The Editors, “Meeting the Story-Maker – Donald G. Cormack”

Ray King, “Brides for Murdered Men”

Dane Gregory, “Golden Lady of Death” (Rocky Rhodes)

Russell Gray, “Girls for the Coffin Syndicate” (Ben Bryn)

W. Wayne Robbins, “Mad Is the Flesh-Master!“

Donald G. Cormack, “Satan’s Surgeon”,  given as “Corpse Surgeon” on the cover (Tom Cardigan)

(cover art repurposed from January 1935 issue)

May 1937 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

May 1937 issue

cover by Tom Lovell

better image than previously posted

Arthur Leo Zagat, “Satan Calls His Children”

Donald Dale, “I See with Dead Men’s Eyes”

Paul Ernst, “Mate for the Thing in the Box”

Ray Cummings, “House of Horrible Laughter”

Ralston Shields, “The Blood Kiss”

Russell Gray, “Girls for the Pain Dance” 

October 1937 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

October 1937 issue

cover art by Tom Lovell

better image than previously posted

The Editor, “White Devils and Black”

Arthur Leo Zagat, “Satan Calls the Strike”

John Kobler, History’s Gallery of Monsters: Belle Gunness, the “Black Widow of Laporte” 

Francis James, “Furnaces of the Damned”

Ray Cummings, “The Horror at Black Glen”

Nat Schachner, “Children of Murder”

Russell Gray, “Death Came Calling”

September 1939 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

September 1939 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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B.B. Fowler, “The Thing That Darkness Spawned”

Emerson Graves, “Murder for Blood”

Russell Gray, “School for Corpses” (Ben Bryn)

Stewart Sterling, “Ten Dead Coppers on the Wall”

Harrison Storm, “Death Visits the Fair”

Dane Gregory, “When the Black Dolls Die”

November 1942 issue

November 1942  issue

better image than previously posted

The Editor, “The Coroner Takes Over”

Day Keene, “A Hearse of Another Color” [Silent Smith (The Silver Fox)]

Felix Graham, “Heil, Werewolf!“

William R. Cox, “Spades for the Dead”  (Tom Kincaid)

Fredric Brown, “Satan One-and-a-Half”

William Brandon, “Nightmare House”

Russell Gray, “The Caricature Murders”

January 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

January 1942 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Stewart Sterling, “Bull-Market for the Dying”

Francis K. Allan, “Am I the Corpse’s Keeper?“

William R. Cox, “Beware the Black Queen”  (Tom Kincaid)

Wayne Rogers, “Murder Town”

Dane Gregory, “All at Once—No Wednesday!“

Russell Gray, “Death Hitch-Hikes South”

[cover updated 2/3/26]