Here for your reading delectation, are 25 outre tales of crime. Since history has proven that there is nothing unusual or unexpected about the human (or inhuman) drive to break the law, it should come as no surprise that the weird, the strange, the supernatural, and the just plain odd often, in fictional form, manifest themselves allayed to the criminal element. Included are:

INTRODUCTION, by Shawn Garrett
THE WINDOW OF HORRORS, by H.L. Mencken
THE FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIRS, by William J. Wintle
THE RÔLE OF THE WEIRD, by Tom Worth
THE HAUNTED BURGLAR, by W.C. Morrow
VALLEY OF THE STORM KING, by Joseph J. Millard
THE MAN IN THE MIRROR, by Lillian B. Hunt
SATAN’S FACELESS HENCHMEN, by Steve Fisher
BAT MAN, by Victor Rousseau
DOUBLE IN DEATH, by Gerald Vance
CYANIDE AND OLD LACE, by Emil Petaja
THE HOUSE OF FIRE, by Robert Moore Williams
THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD, by Thomas Burke
DEATH’S BRIGHT HALO, by Robert Leslie Bellem
FINISHED BY HAND, by H.B. Hickey
THE COUNTERFEITER, by Robert Moore Williams
THE ADVENTURE OF GOSNELL, by George T. Wetzell
MONKEY ON HIS BACK, by Charles V. De Vet
AGREE—OR DIE, by Rufus King
DEATH OVER CHICAGO, by Robert Moore Williams
HOPE CHEST, by Talmage Powell
TUNE ME IN, by Fletcher Flora
GRAMP, by Charles V. De Vet
POISON PEN, by George T. Wetzel
YOU KNOW WILLIE, by Theodore R. Cogswell
THE ULTIMATE PREY, by Talmage Powell

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