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PLANET PARADISE 3
DICK PRESLEY TOOKER
THE TAP 14
THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE 17
MARION CARRERE
COILS OF DARKNESS ⟨25⟩
SYBLA RAMUS
CARVED IN THE FLESH ⟨33⟩
TOM RAWSON HILBOURN
THE HALL BEDROOM ⟨35⟩
MARY SHARON
THE ABYSMAL HORROR ⟨43⟩
B. WALLIS
THE HOUND 50
H. P. LOVECRAFT
DRACONDA 53
THE GHOST OF SILENT SMITH ⟨66⟩
C. FRANKLIN MILLER
DOCTOR DEBRUCE 71
THE HATER ⟨75⟩
WEIRD CRIMES ⟨76⟩
THE EYRIE ⟨79⟩
THE KILLER ⟨91⟩
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thoughts of the baby come to torture him—to keep him from making his escape?
Slowly, as if reluctant to go, he crept to the door and laid his hand upon the knob.
"Oh, doctor! Please—please hurry!"
It was the woman's voice—sobbing—pain-filled.
The Killer hesitated a second longer. Then he turned and, hurling mittens and overcoat into a corner, he commenced heaping kindlings into the stove.
FOOTBALL PLAYER CHOKES ON
TOBACCO
CHEWING tobacco, while playing football recently, cost the life of Chester Mares, 23, a Cleveland semi-professional player, who died of strangulation while being taken tot a hospital at Painesville. Mares had just thrown a forward pass when he was knocked down. In falling, a wad of tobacco became lodged in his throat. Efforts of physicians to prevent death failed.