Our 68th weekly issue has several holiday tales to spice up the season, including an original (“Merry Library Murder,” by N.M. Cedeño, courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and some modern classics by Heather Critchlow (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman) and one of my own favorite authors, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (she’s amazing!) Cynthia Ward has selected an exciting fantasy from Milton J. Davis, plus we have great tales by Ray Bradbury, Lester del Rey, and James Holding, a Sex...

’Tis the season for tricks and treats, and boy do we have a lot of treats this time—including three firsts for us. For our first first, this issue, we have a Featured Author…British horror writer Edmund Glasby. Of course, longtime BCW readers are already familiar with his work, but this issue, we have three original horror novelettes (more than 20,000 words of terror), plus—our second first—a new interview with Ed in which he talks about his work and inspiration. Yes, we’ve run interviews ...

Our 107th issue has everything you could possibly want: police detectives, spacemen, cats, a man fighting an inner battle against cancer, boy detectives, an abandonned mill chimney, murder in space…. I could go on and on, but that would take all the fun out of it for you!

Black Cat Weekly #102 has quite an eclectic lineup. We have modern mystery tales by Joseph S. Walker and Marc Lecard (thanks to Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman. A parody of Harlan Ellison’s work from Larry Tritten. Noir from Bruno Fischer. A story featuring traditional British detective Sexton Blake from Hal Meredith. Classic sci-fi by Lester del Rey. And let’s not forget our solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.We also have more than a few stories...

Elderly John Parker planned to marry his young and beautiful housekeeper, but he daughter vowed she would rather see him in his grave than have the wedding take place...and lose her inheritance. When Parker is apparently poisoned, but the daughter seems improbably innocent despite her murderous declaration the day before, Sexton Blake is called in.

Sexton Blake receives a mysterious letter from a woman, who claims she is being held against her will in Paris. Is it kidnapping or something more sinister? Of course, he investigates immediately.

Black Cat Weekly #86 features 3 original stories: a sequel to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Casque of Amontillado" by Phyllis Ann Karr, and mysteries by K.L. Abrahamson and Andrew Welsh-Huggins. Plus series stories from Robert E. Howard (Solomon Kane) and Hal Meredith (Sexton Blake). Plus novels from Zenith Brown (writing as David Frome) and Edgar Rice Burroughs (a "Lost World" tale).. Plus tales by Bryce Walton and George O. Smith. Plus a solve-it-yourself mystery from Hal Charles. Hour...

When Lord Arlington arrives to pick up his priceless collection of rubies from safe deposit, he discovers they have disappeared. But how could it have happened from behind locked doors in one of the safest places in England? Sexton Blake investigates!

By the time the doctor arrived, Lord Lingdale was beginning to show signs of returning consciousness. When he finally regained his senses and had been informed that the diamonds had been stolen, he turned to his wife. “Wire at once for Sexton Blake,” he said.

URGENT. COME AT ONCE.—TREVELYAN, MOSTYN MANOR.That was all the telegram said; and, apart from the fact that Sir Otto Trevelyan, of Mostyn Manor, in Surrey, was one of the best-known financial magnates in the City of London, that was all that Sexton Blake knew of the case when he left his rooms in Baker Street and drove to Waterloo.

A dead man. A missing coffee-pot. Escaped snakes. Only Sexton Blake could solve this most puzzling case!

With war looming, Sir John, Chief of the British Secret Service, calls on Sexton Blake with a most delicate problem: the Minister of Munitions has gone missing. He must be located, and quickly, with no word of the matter reaching the public.