The guy on the right looks uncertain. He’s like, “Last time we did this, you told me that the idol just needed one last sacrifice, and it would grant us three wishes. How can you be sure it’s going to work this time?”
His friend replies, “The last one wasn’t a redhead.”
Of course, we know it will make no difference. The guy on the right is a psychopath.
Jinx
by
Lew Merrill
Ah ha ha yes dear reader, ANOTHER ‘girl in a jar‘ pulp cover. This one has our hero mashed in there with her, and our menacing friend there seems to be timing how long it takes for the rope to burn through. He must have worse OCD than I do. That’s compulsive.
“Twenty! Twenty seconds so far! Ah! Ah! Ah! I love counting doomed seconds!”
Meanwhile in his left hand, he’s got a bricklayer’s trowel. And there are dates on the jar, on the brass plaque: “1939 – 3439″. Up nearer the top, the jar says “TIME CAPSULE”, unless I’m mistaken. I hope he’s not too addled to realize that these two aren’t going to stay fresh until 3439. That’s a perfectly good blonde he’s wasting!
If you blur your eyes you can see Felix the Cat in this cover. See his head? It’s the shadow on the mad scientist’s red shirt. Either that or I’ve been staring at this too long…
GIRLS FOR THE
CORPSE CLAN
A BLOOD-CHILLING HORROR NOVEL
by DANE GREGORY
***
DANCE
IN DEATH’S
CABARET
by RUSSELL GRAY
***
EDITH AND EJLER JACOBSON
*
DONALD DALE
*
RALSTON SHIELDS
I love how many different genres are wrapped up in this one picture. First off, I see some definite x-ray radioactivity and mad scientist action going on. Next up, there’s a headless lady mummy body there on the left. To go with the mummy body, we’ve got an Egyptian headdress with a snake on top there next to the radio set the red-cowled secret society member is playing with there. It could be my imagination, but is that Egyptian headdress on a stylized raven head? Finally, we’ve got the grotesque mad scientist assistant. Did I mention dials and knobs? This picture has got some dials and knobs!
13 COMPLETE
STORIES IN
THIS ISSUE!
FEATURING
CURSED BE
THE CITY
A Complete Novelet of
Inhuman Bondage
By HENRY
KUTTNER
AUGUST W. DERLETH * FRANK B LONG, JR. * RALPH MILNE FARLEY
MARK SCHORER * ROBERT BLOCH * C.L. MOORE * TALLY MASON
DR. DAVID H. KELLER * KIETH HAMMOND * AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG
“I MUST HAVE
5 CORPSES!”
by
Robert Leslie Bellem
File this under ineffective ways to distract the grim reaper and thus escape his grip: Rub yourself up against him in a slinky red dress.
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Maybe investigating that noise in the attic wasn’t the best thing to do, during the dinner party you’re hosting. How will you ever explain this to Mrs. Fielding? Don’t worry, dear, Harpo is distracting her anyways.
DAUGHTERS OF
THE PLAGUE
A TERROR NOVEL YOU’LL REMEMBER
by HUGH B. CAVE
WYATT
BLASSINGAME
PAUL ERNST
NORVELL PAGE
FRANCIS JAMES
Fhtagn Spoken Here.
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