Dime Mystery Magazine: James A Goldthwaite Book 1
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James A Goldthwaite, sometimes writing as Francis James
Some stock weird menace setups, but the execution felt a bit less formulaic than usual. Lots of throats getting ripped out with bare hands - like snapping celery stalks!
Hands That Kill
A beastly strong womanizer was run out of a small Canadian town ten years ago. His wife waits for him to return with the dog she's trained to kill him. Now he's back, claiming to have learned mystical healing powers of the orient. Someone with his immense strength is committing brutal crimes, starting with ripping the heads off rabbits and lining them up in teacups. Now, the men that ran the mystic off ten years ago are dying one by one, their throats ripped out with bare hands, one left crucifed as a scarecrow, is face eaten away by birds.
The Devil's Highway
A lumbering, square headed brute is kidnapping people from a small town. Weeks later they return, feeble minded and covered in whip lash scars.
Satan's Sisterhood
A series of suburban housewives start sleeping separately from their husbands before ending up dead in apparent suicides, their suicide notes forged by their husbands. Is this connected to the fiend who tears apart neighborhood cats with his bare hands?
Mark of the Laughing Death
Hundreds of citizens find a brand tattooed on their chest before succumbing to Joker venom (four years before the Joker).
My Twin From Hell
A boy spends years in an asylum, driven mad by his father's brutal murder. Now cured, he takes his girl to the worst resort possible.
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