
May 1945 issue
cover art by Gloria Stoll

cover art by Gloria Stoll
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Stewart Sterling, “The Secret of Madam Zenobia” (Gil Vine)
Noel Loomis, “Dummies Don’t Bleed!“
Bruno Fischer, “The Case of the Handless Corpse”
Francis K. Allan, “Death at the Brimstone Border”
Curtiss T. Gardner, “Satan’s Insidious Chessmen” (Val Vickers)
William R. Cox, “Hell Over Hollywood” (Tom Kincaid)

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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”

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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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”
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Frederick C. Davis, “Some Like ‘Em Dead”
Julius Long, “On the Homicide of the Street” (C.D. Mort)
Henry Norton, “Once Upon a Tomb” (Pinero Pershing)
William R. Cox, “Objective – Murder!” (Malachi Manatee)
Thorne Lee, “Death in the Groove”


cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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D.L. Champion, “Death in the Sun” (Mariano Mercado)
C. William Harrison, “Killing is a Grave Business” (Hannibal Smith)
E. Hoffman Price, “Esprit De Corpse” (Lucky Nolan)
Stanley C. Vickers, “The Dolly Shaft Rebellion” (Jerry Slagle)
Julius Long, “Loaded for Murder” (C.D. Mort)
William R. Cox, “Shame on Malacci!” (Malachi Manatee)
