Dime Mystery Magazine - The Noose Hangs High
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On my murder-bus I carried a strange, cold conductor — who had already punched my ticket for the hungry, waiting gallows!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 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. After 1940, Dime Mystery Magazine reverted to more typical mysteries, and relied less upon the grue and gore of the earlier years. This ebook contains a classic story from the pages of Dime Mystery Magazine, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Robert Bloch
Robert Bloch (1917-1994) was a horror, suspense, and science-fiction writer and screenwriter best known for the novel Psycho. Altogether, he wrote over 220 stories collected in over two dozen collections, two dozen novels, screenplays for a dozen movies, and three Star Trek episodes. His many awards include the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards (including Lifetime Achievement), and five Bram Stoker Awards. Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography, published in 1993, was his last major work.
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