The Sunny Side gathers the best short works by the inimitable A. A. Milne. Written for the satire magazine Punch, these brief stories and essays perfectly capture Milne’s sly humor, beguiling social insight, and scathing wit. From Odd Verses to...
MASTER OF DEATH was originally published in the September 15, 1933 of The Shadow Magazine.
Eric Veldon is the master of death. He collects fiendish methods of murder, stolen from their innocent inventors. Then he uses those diabolical methods of...
ISLE OF DOUBT was published in the August 15, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
The "isle" in question is an island in the Mississippi River. The "doubt" is the uncertainty as to whether it is the hiding place of millions in stolen loot or not....
THE BLACK HUSH was originally published in the August 1, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine
Out of nowhere comes a deep, all-enveloping blackness, hiding deeds of evil, making all helpless against it. But The Shadow comes out of the blackness to...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” July 15, 1933.
They planned to let loose a silver scourge; to flood the world with false wealth that would deceive all. But they had not counted upon The...
THE LIVING JOSS was originally published in the July 1, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
Kwa is the living joss. His name is never to be spoken by unbelievers. His sinister power reaches out from the confines of New York's Chinatown, to deal...
Legends of wolf-men exist in the beliefs of almost all peoples and cultures. The terror of werewolves reached a climax in the late Middle Ages when Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) linked the creatures to religious heresy,...
Daniel Carter was a London cop who just wanted to do the right thing. But during a raid on an organ-selling chop shop, he is almost torn to pieces by monsters. And no one believes him. Hurt and crippled, his career over and his life in ruins, Daniel...
THE DEATH GIVER was originally published in the May 15, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
What was the meaning of the sudden, mysterious deaths that were striking ordinary citizens in New York's public places? No doubt they were the first...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” May 1, 1933.
Clyde Burke, one of the Shadow's agents, is on a steamship. Clyde tries to send a message to the Shadow, but it never reaches him. The ship is attacked by a mob and people are...