Detective Sully Heath had to obtain a mysterious music box for his entry fee to the McCullochs' tower of terror. But when Heath heard the ghoulish tunes that eerie clockwork picked off, he knew the price of the tower's secret was...
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Seven stories of Lew Archer’s...
Pulp fiction has been looked down on as a guilty pleasure, but it offers the perfect form of entertainment: the very best storytelling filled with action, surprises, sound and fury. In short, all the exhiliration of a roller-coaster ride. The 1920s...
Fifteen stories and one novel — hard-boiled classics by an undisputed master.
Following gangsters, blackmailers, and gunmen through the underbelly of 1930s America on their journeys to do dark deeds, Paul Cain’s stories are classics of his...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” February 1, 1935.
International crooks, scheming to make millions by stealing the plans of the Navy Department’s mystery submarine, come up against The Shadow in a battle of...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” November 15, 1935.
Sinuous coils of crime envelop The Shadow as he battles The Python. But within the folds of a black cloak is a body with a strength to crush the serpent’s...
MacDonald apparently loathes the Hollywood scene, and he creates some characters to show us why. (A couple of times during the series Travis reels off a list of things he has no use for, and "actresses" are included.) There's a new character...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” June 1, 1933.
Lamont Cranston (one of The Shadow's identities — indeed, the best known — a "wealthy young man about town") first meets Commissioner Weston, setting up the friendship that...
The Shadow lives by darkness, gliding through the waiting night unseen, a mocking laugh his only calling card. None who have trafficked in crime will ever forget him. The may sneer at the law…but not at The Shadow. Each generation of evil breeds a...
THE RIBBON CLUES was originally published in the October 1, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
In this story, The Shadow gets to visit Chinatown, travel through the twisty underground passages, meet with Yat Soon, arbiter of Chinatown, and...