Master of the Walking Dead

The original 1939 blurb for this story reads: 'Molding corpses stalk darkness as fate cuts a grim, macabre jigsaw of death!' Today you would except a zombie story, as with the hit TV show 'The Walking Dead,' but in the original pages of the pulp magazine Thrilling Mystery, you get the opposite-a classic crime story by one of the best pulp writers of the era. The dead may walk, but there is always a rational explanation, no matter how sensational the blurb.