Will Murray's Pulp Classics
Dime Mystery Magazine Day Keene
These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this Terror Tales series of eBooks.
In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Dime Mystery Magazine was one of the most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a collection of stories from the pages of Dime Mystery Magazine, all written by Day Keene, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Dime Mystery Magazine — An Introduction
by Will Murray
Seven Keys to Murder — September 1944 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine
by Day Keene
When McGinty took that job at the luxurious Florida mansion, he didn’t know that he was to be guest of honor at a charnel-housewarming, with seven desperate people bidding in blood to learn the grisly secret of that murder menage.
A Corpse for Cinderella — May 1945 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine
by Day Keene
When Tommy Martin took on the job of de-bunking the inexplicable “kiss-of-death” killings, he didn’t know that he himself had No. 1 priority on Dahut’s lethal lips — backed by a gruesome pair of rod-packing corpses who chose him as partner for their deadman’s quadrille!
Claws of the Hell-Cat — January 1946 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine
by Day Keene
Gwen was a nice girl; only trouble was that she did a vanishing act every time she took a few drinks... And this time she put both her expensive feet square in the red middle of Murder — which looked as if there’d be plenty left over as a serving for Matt Mercer, too!
Doc Egg’s Graveyard Reunion — February 1946 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine
by Day Keene
Already “dead,” Doc Egg wound up a very corpse-filled evening by becoming New York’s most promising hot-squat candidate — about to burn for the same murder he was trying to solve!
I’ll Be Seeing You — November 1946 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine
by Day Keene
O’Hara, city boss, was used to putting the bite on people — until he found a. better, more bitter, biter than he’d ever dreamed of!
Will Murray’s Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.
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