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