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Starting in 1934, editor (and publisher) Harry Steeger unveiled Terror Tales: perhaps the flagship magazine in Popular Publications' so-called "Weird Menace" lineup of titles. Running for almost 50 issues, Terror Tales showcased some of the best suspense, mystery and terror stories to see print in the pulps. This facsimile of the October 1934 issue contains stories by Carl Jacobi, G.T. Fleming-Roberts, Wyatt Blassingame, and Hugh B. Cave, amon...

Dime Detective magazine was the flagship detective pulp in the Popular Publications stable, running for almost 300 issues over twenty years. The third issue contains stories by Madeleine Sharps Buchanan, Frederick Nebel, Carroll John Daly, and Oscar Schisgall, and includes another appearance by Nebel's long-running series character, Cardigan as well as Carroll John Daly's character, Vee "Crime Machine" Brown.

Dime Detective magazine was the flagship detective pulp in the Popular Publications stable, running for almost 300 issues over twenty years. The fourth issue contains stories by T.T. Flynn, Frederick Nebel, Carroll John Daly, Edward Parrish Ware, and J. Allan Dunn, and includes an additional appearance by Nebel's character, Cardigan as well as by Carroll John Daly's Vee "Crime Machine" Brown.

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Lawrence Galloway, managing editor of New York tabloid The Daily It, was given the exclusive story of the experiments of Professor J. Hendricks Morgan, whereby he had perfected a system which would resurrect the dead... provided he have access to the subject's skeleton and a cost of one million dollars. The test subject was decided by the readers of The It, and after the bones of the First American were taken from Mount Vernon, a young man cal...

In 1930, Argosy Magazine brought back several of their most popular series characters, and that list was headlined by Peter the Brazen. The two stories collected in Volume 6 showcases an even more action-oriented series compared to the earlier stories, and are considered by pulp readers as among the best stories to ever appear in Argosy. Written by George F. Worts under his primary pen-name, Peter the Brazen made a marked impression on Argosy ...

Frozen to death in a scalding hot steam bath! That was the baffling fate that overtook Simon Corlaes, wealthy-and hated-chemical wizard. Jigger Masters, detective hired by Corlaes to protect him after receiving dearth threats, was unable to prevent the murder, but now it was his duty to track down the slayer. Discovering that liquid air of a searing, frigid temperature had been fed into Corlaes' shower from an adjoining laboratory, Jigger Mast...

Price Stanley runs into a grim mystery while driving his cattle herd north. When he stops at old Vane house in the Ozarks to rest his cattle for the night, he discovers the owner, old Captain Vane has been shot and killed. The locals believe Price killed the Captain, but when one of the local men staying at the Vane house is also killed, it becomes clear there's more to the mystery than a single murder. Armed with the Golden Derringers, a pair...

In between writing the adventures of naturalists Peter Scarlet & Bradshaw and French Foreign Legion soldier Thibaut Corday, longtime Argosy author Theodore Roscoe penned several unconnected stories set in exotic locales. These, the East of Suez stories, are amongst the most popular stories ever to see print in the pages of Argosy magazine. This collection contains all nine East of Suez-labeled stories, including his novel, Bentfinger, which de...

Once voted Adventure magazine's most popular author, W.C. Tuttle introduced the world to one of his longest-running-and most popular-series characters, Henry Harrison Conroy, in the pages of Argosy. Collected here are the next two novels: "Thirty Days For Henry" and "Buckshot for Henry.

Brilliant psychiatrist Doctor Carter Cole often investigates crimes that seem to be supernatural in nature. Using his medical training to discern the mental states of suspects he interrogates, making deductions based on the quirks manifest in their behavior, and is aided in his cases by identical-twin nurses. Written by Frederick C. Davis, this edition collects the first half of the series: "The Case of the Crimson Claws, " "The Case of the Sk...

A millionaire playboy with a yen for excitement, young Ken McNally disguises himself as the gray-haired, gold-toothed, jaundiced-looking proprietor of a seedy tattoo parlor in the "tenderloin" district of St. Louis. His unusual occupation frequently brings him into contact with underworld denizens who, willingly or accidentally, embroil him in criminal activities. Written by William E. Barrett, Needle Mike found himself embroiled in nearly 20 ...

Femme fatale Mme. Rozika Storey was one of the most popular series characters in the pages of Argosy during the 1920s-30s. These detective stories are fast-paced adventures which pushed Madame Storey's masterful deductive skills to the limit. Volume 3 contains the next two stories in the series: "The Steerers" and "The Under Dogs, " along with the original pulp illustrations. Also including an introduction by pulp historian Robert Sampson.

Meet Mr. Strang: In his skull is embedded a bullet. Through the underworld glide his lieutenants-men and girls willing to be tortured to death to aid him. He cares nothing for power, nothing for safety. He works for one thing-to crush the evils of parole, and to smash the mysterious, sinister figure who uses the parole system to take desperate criminals from jail, to rob and murder helpless citizens! Collecting the first half of this archetypa...

A world shaken by unrest and discontent is threatened suddenly with a new an enormously powerful Fascist movement. Spike Brenn, famous American newscaster, discovers that an organization call the Steel Fists is ready to strike for power, led by John Hannibal, a wealthy American who believes fanatically that he alone, as dictator, can save his country from chaos. A never-before-reprinted espionage classic from the pages of Argosy magazine.

Author Richard Dermody's stories of traveling conman Doc Pierce appeared frequently during the 1940s in the pages of Dime Detective magazine. Pierce, a scheming grifter, appeared in over twenty stories, and they are a hidden gem in this period of Dime Detective.The Complete Cases of Doc Pierce, Volume 1 contains the first half of the series: "Hello, Sucker!, " "The Doctor's Bag, " "The Doctor Operates, " "The Doctor's Ditch, " "The Doctor's Fe...

Panama-the fairest sight ever to greet the eyes of plundering pirate-lay waiting for Captain Morgan and his men. Louis d'Or, famous pirate of the Spanish Main, encounters in sea battle a small craft commanded by Ivor Kildare, a young daring pirate who is also known as Tranquillo II. Captured by d'Or, in order to barter for his life, Kildare translates for d'Or a cipher cut in wood which tells of hidden treasure at in Panama. But the quest for ...

Framed for murder and hunted by the law after being framed for the death of his foster father, Richard Pemberton must change his identity with plastic surgery and become "Paul Standing" in order to find and kill the gangsters who murdered his surrogate father. Never before in book form, Beyond the Law is one of the best novels author J. Allan Dunn penned for Argosy magazine.

Brilliant and youthful scientist Charles Deane has discovered a new element, Stratium, which is lighter than air. Upon presenting this new discovery to a learned society of chemists, a sample of Stratium has gone missing and Deane's leading critic, Cairns, is murdered. What is the connection between Stratium and a secret society's obsession with Ichor, the so-called "fluid of the immortal gods?" An Argosy science fiction classic, out of print ...