As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” November 15, 1935.
Sinuous coils of crime envelop The Shadow as he battles The Python. But within the folds of a black cloak is a body with a strength to crush the serpent’s...
THE GARAUCAN SWINDLE was originally published in the September 15, 1934 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
An entire nation's economy was in peril. Millions were at stake — but to The Shadow, it was a matter of lives and reputations, not money,...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” March 15, 1935.
Slow ponderous notes, ringing out a death knell, they toll forth from the old bell-tower as Bells of...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” October 15, 1934.
They were not dead — they were asleep, these victims of a new malady — or of the plans of some master crook who brought the death...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” December 15, 1934.
A master crook, whose machinations of crime leads The Shadow on a trail from the heart of New York to the Latin Quarter of New...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” June 1, 1933.
Lamont Cranston (one of The Shadow's identities — indeed, the best known — a "wealthy young man about town") first meets Commissioner Weston, setting up the friendship that...
"I have just freed myself from the power of a fiend; whispered Worth Varden. "A fiend who would stop at nothing. A supercriminal whose schemes are but in the making...."
Hours later, Varden was dead. And with him went all he knew about the...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” January 1, 1934.
Great things impend. Nations convene and prepare for a tremendous task for world betterment. The stage is set for civilization’s proudest moment, and then come The Embassy...
THE LONDON CRIMES was originally published in the September 15, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
Thefts, frauds, robberies, murder — all for millions. The Harvester reaps what he has sown, but The Shadow comes along to check the harvest of...
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?
The Shadow knows! The weed of crime bears bitter fruit, but none more deadly than the criminal genius called THE BLACK MASTER. Clearly it's a case for The Shadow… to uncover this emperor of evil...