10 Story Mystery Magazine: A Complete List of Issues

November 26, 2024 by Jason Hamilton

10 Story Mystery Magazine was a pulp fiction publication from Popular Publications that ran from 1941 to 1943. Despite its relatively short run of only nine issues, the magazine featured an eclectic mix of mystery stories from various notable authors.

Notable Contributors

The magazine attracted writers from diverse genres, including:

Lee E. Wells (Western writer)
John H. Knox (Weird Menace author)
C.M. Kornbluth (science fiction author, writing under the pseudonym Walter C. Davies)
Carl Jacobi (WEIRD TALES contributor)
O.B. Myers (aviation/air war author)

Publication History

After ceasing publication in 1943, 10 Story Mystery Magazine was absorbed by Dime Mystery magazine, which continued the publication’s legacy from mid-1944 onwards.

The magazine was a sister publication to the more successful 10 Story Western Magazine, though it didn’t achieve the same longevity.

The publication was part of the pulp magazine era, featuring genre fiction stories that often included mysterious and suspenseful narratives. Each issue contained, as the title suggests, ten complete mystery stories, providing readers with a variety of tales from different authors in a single volume.

#	Get It	Name	Date	Editor	Artist	Containing
1		10 Story Mystery Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1	1941-12-01			6 — Tracks Across the Darkness — The Editors (Column) 11 — The Melancholy Corpses — William R. Cox (Novelette) 24 — Death Comes with the Fog — W. T. Ballard (Novelette) 41 — I Will Not Perish — C. P. Donnel, Jr. (True Story) 46 — Sing a Song of Suicide — Stewart Sterling (Novelette) 60 — The Voice of the Mist — Wyatt Blassingame (Short Story) 70 — The Killer in Huntsman’s Clothes — Ray P. Shotwell (True Story) 77 — Die, Little Comrade! — H. Q. Masur (Short Story) 79 — A White Bird Flying — James D. Perry (Short Story) 86 — The Dead Do Care — Donald G. Cormack (Short Story) 94 — Man Trap — Wayne Rogers (Short Story)
2		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), Vol. 1, No. 1	1941-12-01			2 — Death Still Haunts Them — The Editor (True Story, Reprint) 4 — Sing a Song of Murder — Richard Sale (Novelette, Dime Mystery Magazine November 1941) 16 — The Man Who Made a Hell — Joe Kent (Short Story, Dime Mystery Magazine November 1941) 27 — Double Exposure — Robert D. Duncan (Short Story, Dime Mystery Magazine July 1941) 36 — Death’s Delivery Boy — Donald G. Cormack (Short Story, Dime Mystery Magazine September 1941) 45 — His Good Angel — Harrison Storm (Short Story, Dime Mystery Magazine September 1941) 54 — Bargain Counter Corpse [Doc Turner] — Arthur Leo Zagat (Short Story, The Spider October 1941; not the same as the story in August 1938 issue) 62 — The Man Who Dialed Death [Rig Donaldson] — O. B. Myers (Short Story, The Spider May 1941) 71 — Mine Host—The Ghost — Costa Carousso (Short Story, Dime Mystery Magazine July 1941) 76 — Corpses on Display — Robert C. Blackmon (Short Story, Dime Mystery Magazine September 1941) 85 — Murder’s Midnight Jamboree — Francis K. Allan (Short Story, Dime Mystery Magazine September 1941)
3		10 Story Mystery Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2	1942-02-01			6 — Tracks Across the Darkness — The Editors (Column) 11 — The Name Is Lucky — Jackson Gregory, Jr. (Novelette) 25 — Hamadryad Chair — Carl Jacobi (Short Story) 33 — Angles for a Lady — Lee E. Wells (Short Story) 42 — The Living and the Dead — Francis K. Allan (Short Story) 47 — Swan Song — Ray P. Shotwell (Short Story) 52 — Killer in Tails — Adam King (Short Story) 60 — The Bride of Forbidden Valley — John H. Knox (Novelette) 76 — Error in Guinea Pigs — Walter C. Davies (Short Story) 87 — Easy to Kill — Scott Coudray (Short Story) 94 — Silent Waits My Tomb — O. B. Myers (Novelette)
4		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), Vol. 16, No. 3	1942-02-01			2 — Tracks Across the Darkness — The Editors (Column, 10 Story Mystery Magazine December 1941) 4 — The Melancholy Corpses — William R. Cox (Novelette, 10 Story Mystery Magazine December 1941) 18 — Death Comes with the Fog — W. T. Ballard (Novelette, 10 Story Mystery Magazine December 1941) 34 — Sing a Song of Suicide — Stewart Sterling (Novelette, 10 Story Mystery Magazine December 1941) 48 — The Voice of the Mist — Wyatt Blassingame (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine December 1941) 57 — A White Bird Flying — James D. Perry (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine December 1941) 64 — The Killer in Huntsman’s Clothes — Ray P. Shotwell (True Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine December 1941) 71 — Man Trap — Wayne Rogers (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine December 1941) 81 — The Dead Do Care — Donald G. Cormack (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine December 1941) 90 — I Will Not Perish — C. P. Donnel, Jr. (True Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine December 1941) 94 — Die, Little Comrade! — H. Q. Masur (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine December 1941)
5		10 Story Mystery Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3	1942-04-01			11 — They Knew Dolly — Russell Gray (Novelette) 26 — The Beggars on Horseback — Curt Benson (Novelette) 48 — The Evil Men Do — Arthur Macom (Short Story) 51 — Stand In — B. B. Fowler (Short Story) 54 — Now I Lay Me Down to Die — Donald G. Cormack (Novelette) 69 — The Thirteenth Witness — Herman Landon (Short Story) 72 — Assassin in Armor — Stewart Sterling (Novelette) 89 — Wherever the Graft Grows — G. T. Fleming-Roberts (Short Story) 97 — Death Breaks the Date — Francis K. Allan (Short Story)
6		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), April 1942	1942-04-01			The Bride of Forbidden Valley — John H. Knox (Novelette, 10 Story Mystery Magazine February 1942) Silent Waits My Tomb — O. B. Myers (Novelette, 10 Story Mystery Magazine February 1942)
7		10 Story Mystery Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4	1942-06-01		Rafael DeSoto	6 — Tracks Across the Darkness — The Editors (Column) 11 — Positively—the Final Appearance! — Day Keene (Novelette) 33 — Kill by Proxy, Hang by Proxy — Donald G. Cormack (Short Story) 42 — Bride of the Red Wing — Francis K. Allan (Novelette) 58 — My Caller, Death — Herman Landon (Short Story) 68 — Price of Tomorrow — David Crewe (Short Story) 76 — Murder for Me! — J. J. des Ormeaux (Short Story) 86 — Caskets for Two — Robert Turner (Short Story) 93 — Happy Joe’s Chocolate Bar — Ray P. Shotwell (Short Story) 99 — A Hint from Death — Jackson Gregory, Jr. (Short Story)
8		10 Story Mystery Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1	1942-08-01		Rafael M. DeSoto	6 — Tracks Across the Darkness — The Editors (Column) 11 — Odds on Terror — Barker Cleaver (Short Story) 21 — Until the Killer Dies — Francis K. Allan (Short Story) 32 — I’ll Bet My Life — G. T. Fleming-Roberts (Novella) 61 — The Man from Hell’s Corner — Thomas W. Duncan (Short Story, Illustrated by John Giunta) 66 — Epitaph for X — Frederick C. Davis (Novelette) 80 — The Death Watch — Robert Turner (Short Story) 89 — Fingered — Bertrand L. Shurtleff (Short Story) 92 — I’ll Fly to Hell — Harvey Ivison (Short Story) 95 — No Escape for the Damned — John Bender (Short Story) 98 — Murder Has Seven Guests — Russell Gray (Novelette; Given as “Murder Had Seven Guests” on the Cover)
9		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), Vol. 17, No. 1	1942-09-01			4 — Positively—the Final Appearance! — Day Keene (Novelette, 10 Story Mystery Magazine June 1942) 26 — Bride of the Red Wing — Francis K. Allan (Novelette, 10 Story Mystery Magazine June 1942) 42 — Murder for Me! — J. J. des Ormeaux (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine June 1942) 52 — Kill by Proxy, Hang by Proxy — Donald G. Cormack (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine June 1942) 60 — My Caller, Death — Herman Landon (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine June 1942) 70 — Price of Tomorrow — David Crewe (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine June 1942) 78 — Money to Burn — William Benton Johnston (Short Story, Detective Tales February 1942) 80 — Happy Joe’s Chocolate Bar — Ray P. Shotwell (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine June 1942) 85 — A Hint from Death — Jackson Gregory, Jr. (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine June 1942)
10		10 Story Mystery Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2	1942-10-01			Daughter of Murder — Russell Gray (Novella) One Passenger for Hell — Edward S. Williams (Short Story) The Case of the Laughing Queen — Lance Kermit (by David Goodis) (Short Story) The Farmer Takes a Life — Henry Norton (Short Story) The Dead Laugh Last — David Crewe (by David Goodis) (Short Story) Bride of the Gallows — Robert Turner (Short Story) The Port of No Return — Francis K. Allan (Short Story) Make Mine—Murder — James A. Kirch (Short Story) G-Heat — Richard Landes (Short Story) Come to My Dying! — Logan C. Claybourne (by David Goodis) (Short Story)
11		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), Vol. 17, No. 2	1942-11-01			4 — I’ll Bet My Life — G. T. Fleming-Roberts (Novella, 10 Story Mystery Magazine August 1942) 32 — Epitaph for X — Frederick C. Davis (Novelette, 10 Story Mystery Magazine August 1942) 44 — Murder Has Seven Guests — Russell Gray (Novelette, 10 Story Mystery Magazine August 1942) 58 — Odds on Terror — Barker Cleaver (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine August 1942) 68 — Until the Killer Dies — Francis K. Allan (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine August 1942) 76 — The Man from Hell’s Corner — Thomas W. Duncan (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine August 1942) 82 — Caskets for Two — Robert Turner (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine June 1942) 89 — I’ll Fly to Hell — Harvey Ivison (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine August 1942) 91 — No Escape for the Damned — John Bender (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine August 1942) 93 — Fingered — Bertrand L. Shurtleff (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine August 1942)
12		10 Story Mystery Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3	1942-12-01			My Lady of the Darkness — Day Keene (Short Story) Death and the Dawn Are Brothers! — Charles Tahey (Short Story) The Fear Stone — Herman Landon (Short Story) The Last Racket — D. L. Champion (Short Story) This Man Is Dangerous — G. T. Fleming-Roberts (Short Story) Furlough—Forever! — Wyatt Blassingame (Short Story) The Man Who Died Twice — Frank P. Kerr (Short Story) Murder—His Mark — David Crewe (Short Story) Forgive Us Our Deaths — Robert Turner (Short Story)
13		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), Vol. 17, No. 3	1943-01-01			Daughter of Murder — Russell Gray (Novella, 10 Story Mystery Magazine October 1942) The Dead Laugh Last — David Crewe (by David Goodis) (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine October 1942)
14		10 Story Mystery Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4	1943-02-01			6 — Tracks Across the Darkness — The Editors (Column) 11 — Mine Is the Murder Brain — G. T. Fleming-Roberts (Short Story) 23 — Midnight Is for Dying — Don James (Short Story) 32 — Murder Mask — Russell Gray (Novelette) 44 — The Riddle House — David Crewe (Short Story) 54 — Come Die with Me! — Philip Ketchum (Novelette) 69 — The Devil and the Deep — Ronald Henderson (Short Story) 73 — Dead Men’s Bones — Robert W. Sneddon (True Story) 81 — Farewell, My Life! — David X. Manners (Short Story) 87 — Cure for Killers — Scott Mariner (Short Story) 93 — The Death Flower — John Earl Davis (Short Story)
15		10 Story Mystery Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1	1943-04-01			Tracks Across the Darkness — The Editors (Column) Now That I Am Dead — Philip Ketchum (Novella) The Mark of the Doomed — Jackson Gregory, Jr. (Short Story) Satan’s Servant — Bruno Fischer (Short Story) Checkmate — Ray Cummings (Short Story) Decoy for Death — Joe Archibald (Short Story) My Grave Must Be Deep — Thomas Lamar (Short Story) The Gray Destroyer — Robert W. Sneddon (Short Story) Boomerang — Murray W. Mosser (Short Story) The Dead Can’t Doubt — Frank Airth (Short Story)
16		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), Vol. 17, No. 4	1943-05-01			Come Die with Me! — Philip Ketchum (Novelette, 10 Story Mystery Magazine February 1943) Midnight Is for Dying — Don James (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine February 1943) Cure for Killers — Scott Mariner (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine February 1943) Dead Men’s Bones — Robert W. Sneddon (True Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine February 1943) Murder Mask — Russell Gray (Novelette, 10 Story Mystery Magazine February 1943)
17		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), Vol. 17, No. 5	1943-07-01			2 — Tracks Across the Darkness — The Editors (Column, 10 Story Mystery Magazine April 1943) 4 — Now That I Am Dead — Philip Ketchum (Novella, 10 Story Mystery Magazine April 1943) 20 — The Mark of the Doomed — Jackson Gregory, Jr. (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine April 1943) 31 — Satan’s Servant — Bruno Fischer (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine April 1943) 39 — Checkmate — Ray Cummings (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine April 1943) 45 — Decoy for Death — Joe Archibald (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine April 1943) 55 — My Grave Must Be Deep — Thomas Lamar (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine April 1943) 64 — The Gray Destroyer — Robert W. Sneddon (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine April 1943) 72 — Boomerang — Murray W. Mosser (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine April 1943) 81 — The Dead Can’t Doubt — Frank Airth (Short Story, 10 Story Mystery Magazine April 1943)
18		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), September 1943	1943-09-01			Tracks Across the Darkness — The Editors (Column, Reprint) Swing Me a Dirge! — Robert Turner (Novelette, New Detective Magazine November 1943) Murder Resurrects the Dead — A. Boyd Correll (Short Story, Reprint) The Singing Dead — Henry A. Norton (Short Story, Flynn’s Detective Fiction October 1943) Lost—By a Hair — David Crewe (Short Story, Reprint) Swamp Road Lorelei — C. S. Montanye (Short Story, Reprint) The Even Odds — Robert W. Cochran (Short Story, Reprint) Accidental Death — Albert Wilder (Short Story, New Detective Magazine May 1942) Mr. Wickam’s Wallet — C. William Harrison (Short Story, Flynn’s Detective Fiction March 1943) Payment Deferred — C. M. Brown (Short Story, Reprint) Murder Goes A-Hunting — Robert W. Sneddon (Article, Flynn’s Detective Fiction June 1943)
19		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), November 1943	1943-11-01			Homicide Highway — Hugh B. Cave (Short Story, Detective Fiction November 29 1941)
20		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), Vol. 17, No. 11	1944-05-01			2 — The Sergeant’s Desk Blotter — The Editors (Column, Reprint) 4 — Marihuana — Cornell Woolrich (Novelette, Detective Fiction Weekly May 3 1941) 25 — Vitamin L—for Larceny — Paul Allenby (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly May 17 1941) 34 — Ham on Wry [Patrolman Peter Piper] — John St. John (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly May 17 1941) 42 — The Rugged Benches — Jim Kjelgaard (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly May 17 1941) 49 — Smoke Sign — Dale Clark (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly May 10 1941) 52 — The Reappearing Madsen — Charles Boswell (True Story, Detective Fiction Weekly May 17 1941) 61 — No Mind for Clues [Sheriff Ollie Bascomb] — Harold de Polo (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly June 14 1941) 69 — The Miniature Murders — Ken Crossen (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly May 17 1941) 77 — Clocked Out — Phil Richards (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly May 3 1941)
21		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), Vol. 17, No. 12	1944-07-01			2 — The Sergeant’s Desk Blotter — The Editors (Column, Reprint) 4 — Mass Murderer — Joel Townsley Rogers (Novella, Detective Fiction Weekly July 5 1941) 27 — Kerrigan — Edwin Baird (Vignette, Detective Fiction Weekly May 24 1941) 29 — The Flutter of Silent Wings — John C. McCurnin (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly July 19 1941) 36 — The Bridge to Hell — Robert H. Leitfred (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly July 12 1941) 45 — Murder as a Fine Art — Ken Crossen (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly July 12 1941) 51 — Portrait of a Cop — John J. McPhaul (Article, Detective Fiction Weekly July 12 1941) 59 — They Tell No Tales — Francis Chase, Jr. (Vignette, Detective Fiction Weekly May 17 1941) 61 — Murder for Improvement — William Edward Hayes (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly July 19 1941) 69 — Trouble with Twins [Johnny “Mad” Hatter] — Bennett Barlay (Novelette, Detective Fiction Weekly July 19 1941, as by Ken Crossen)
22		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), Vol. 17, No. 13	1944-09-01			2 — The Sergeant’s Desk Blotter — The Editors (Column, Reprint) 4 — Death in Fool’s Disguise — Francis K. Allan (Short Story, Dime Detective Magazine January 1944) 28 — Photo Finish — Hugh B. Cave (Short Story, Detective Fiction September 17 1941) 34 — The Case of the Vanishing Bomb — William B. Hart (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly February 8 1941) 42 — The Racket in the Stars — Ardis Russell (Article, Detective Fiction September 17 1941) 46 — One Peaceful Night — J. Lane Linklater (Novelette, Detective Fiction November 1 1941) 49 — Incendiary Kill — John Maguire (Short Story, Detective Fiction October 1 1941) 56 — Death on High Iron [Daffy Dill] — Richard Sale (Short Story, Detective Fiction September 17 1941) 65 — Trapping the Pious Butcher — Seymour E. Francis (Article, Detective Fiction November 29 1941) 72 — Blond Cannibal Murders — Philip H. Godsell (Article, Detective Fiction September 17 1941)
23		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada)	1945-01-01			Sinister Sapphire [Miriam Crews] — H. Bedford-Jones (Short Story, Argosy January 18 1941)
24		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), Vol. 17, No. 17	1945-05-01			The Town That Murder Built — William R. Cox (Novelette, Dime Mystery Magazine March 1945)
25		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada)	1945-09-01			The Body in the Icebox — Ken Lewis (Short Story, Dime Detective Magazine January 1945)
26		10 Story Mystery Magazine (Canada), Vol. 17, No. 20	1945-11-01			2 — The Number on the Bill — Julien J. Proskauer (Article, Detective Fiction Weekly February 11 1933) 4 — Strangers on the Kill! — William R. Cox (Short Story, Dime Mystery Magazine September 1945) 15 — Science Traps the Criminal — James W. Booth (Article, Detective Fiction Weekly March 18 1933) 21 — The Hidden Thing — Eugene P. Lyle (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly June 10 1933) 32 — A Kiss—for a Coffin! — Robert C. Dennis (Short Story, Dime Mystery Magazine September 1945) 42 — The Hardscrabble Horror — Dugal O’Liam (Article, Detective Fiction Weekly April 1 1933) 52 — Remember the Day I Died? — Cyril Plunkett (Short Story, Dime Mystery Magazine July 1945) 61 — Safe! — Henry LaCossitt (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly February 18 1933) 72 — Reeve Reynolds Drops a Case — Bruce Douglas (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly May 27 1933) 80 — Dead Man’s Necktie — Herman Landon (Short Story, Detective Fiction Weekly March 25 1933)

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