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• 4 • The Editor's Page (Startling Mystery Stories, Summer 1970) • [Editorial (Startling Mystery Stories)] • (1970) • essay by Robert A. W. Lowndes
• 12 • The Smell • (1932) • short story by Francis Flagg
• 13 •  The Smell • (1931) • interior artwork by H. W. Wesso
• 22 • The Reckoning (Startling Mystery Stories, Summer 1970) • (1970) • essay by uncredited
• 23 • The Temple of Death • [Taine of San Francisco] • (1970) • novelette by David H. Keller, M.D.
• 48 • The Silver Bullet • (1935) • novelette by Phyllis A. Whitney
• 49 •  The Silver Bullet • (1935) • interior artwork by Vincent Napoli
• 66 • Inquisitions (Startling Mystery Stories, Summer 1970) • [Inquisitions (Startling Mystery Stories)] • (1970) • essay by Robert A. W. Lowndes
• 66 •   Review: Number Seven Queer Street by Margery Lawrence • (1970) • review by Robert A. W. Lowndes
• 68 •   Review: The Science Fictional Sherlock Holmes by Robert C. Peterson • (1970) • review by Robert A. W. Lowndes
• 69 • The Man Who Collected Eyes • (1970) • short story by Eddy C. Bertin (trans. of De man die ogen verzamelde)
• 76 • The Devil's Rosary • [Jules de Grandin] • (1929) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
• 114 • The Cauldron (Startling Mystery Stories, Summer 1970) • (1970) • essay by various
• 114 •  Letter (Startling Mystery Stories, Summer 1970) • (1970) • essay by William H. Desmond
• 116 •  Letter (Startling Mystery Stories, Summer 1970) • (1970) • essay by Reed Andrus [as by Reed S. Andrus]
• 118 •  Letter (Startling Mystery Stories, Summer 1970) • (1970) • essay by Dennis Lien
• 127 • Review of non-genre mystery novel: "Ordeal by Innocence" by Agatha Christie • (1970) • essay by Robert A. W. Lowndes