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• 3 • Introduction (Death Orchids & Other Bizarre Tales) • essay by Robert Weinberg
• 4 • The Monster Wants More Than a Mate • (1940) • short story by Brent North
• 4 •  The Monster Wants More Than a Mate • (1940) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 8 • Betrothal of the Thing • (1940) • novelette by Gabrielle Cummings and Ray Cummings [as by Gabriel Wilson]
• 8 •  Betrothal of the Thing • (1940) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 23 • Bride for the Half-Dead • (1936) • novelette by Charles Marquis Warren
• 23 •  Bride for the Half-Dead • (1936) • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox
• 46 • Doomsday Fate • (1936) • short story by Jeffry Strictland
• 46 •  Doomsday Fate • (1936) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 54 • Beautiful as Death • (1941) • short story by Wyatt Blassingame [as by William B. Rainey]
• 54 •  Beautiful as Death • (1941) • interior artwork by Harry Lemon Parkhurst
• 59 •  Beautiful as Death [2] • (1941) • interior artwork by Harry Lemon Parkhurst
• 63 •  Beautiful as Death [3] • (1941) • interior artwork by Harry Lemon Parkhurst
• 66 • Mesa of Madness • (1941) • short story by Robert Leslie Bellem
• 66 •  Mesa of Madness • (1941) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 71 •  Mesa of Madness [2] • (1941) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 75 •  Mesa of Madness [3] • (1941) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 78 • Death Orchids • (1935) • short story by Robert Leslie Bellem [as by Ellery Watson Calder]
• 78 •  Death Orchids • (1935) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 83 •  Death Orchids [2] • (1935) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 87 •  Death Orchids [3] • (1935) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 91 •  Death Orchids [4] • (1935) • interior artwork by uncredited
• bc •  Spicy Mystery Stories, October 1936 (cover) • (1936) • interior artwork by Harry Lemon Parkhurst
• bc •  Spicy Mystery Stories, March 1937 (cover) • (1937) • interior artwork by uncredited
• bc •  Spicy Mystery Stories, April 1936 (cover) • (1936) • interior artwork by Harry Lemon Parkhurst
• bc •  Spicy Mystery Stories, August 1937 (cover) • (1937) • interior artwork by H. J. Ward (variant of cover art for Spicy Mystery Stories, August 1937)