Robert "Author of Psycho" Bloch worked from Weird Tales through Tales from the Darkside. Known mainly for the Hitchcock adaptation, my favorites from him have been in horror anthology TV and film.
Weird Tales, March 1948
A school bully is menaced by the cat of a witch whose house he burned down. Just gruesome enough to stay in the ring.
Spicy Adventure Stories, September 1936
A woman wanting a dragon statue and our "hero" run around a warehouse getting menaced and knocked out. No adventure, an unfair mystery, and caps off with a bad-even-for-spicy-pulps light hearted rape.
Horror Stories, January 1935
A mill owner prone to blackouts believes he's been on a murder spree and is a danger to his wife. Standard shudder stuff, though Blassingame crafts a more dreamlike atmosphere than most.
Midnight Graffiti, Fall 1988
Lansdale waxes sentimental with an elderly man fighting death to save his wife.
Fantastic Adventures, February 1948
Deep in the inner earth, the evil Fellowship of the Black Cross worships a giant worm with a human head.
Dime Mystery Magazine, January 1936
Everyone drops dead at the death themed restaurant Café Styx, where guests sit at coffins and are served by waiters dressed as skeletons. Felt like he wrote a mystery into a corner and just abandoned it as a horror tale.
Mammoth Detective, March 1943
A homeless man finds a woman dead in the jaws of a lion statue at the La Brea tar pits. Promising premise runs aground in a series of false finishes in a single locatiom.
Brackett goes over the ropes. Robert E. Howard is disqualified and escorted out of the ring by security.
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