Paul Ernst was a versatile writer and one of the most creative of the weird menace authors who wrote for Popular Publications' triumvirate of "shudder pulps," Dime Mystery Magazine, Terror Tales and Horror Stories. Sourced predominantly from Dime Mystery Magazine, the twelve stories in this volume display Ernst's talent for weaving ambiguous plot elements into his tales to create stronger supernatural suggestion than was usual in the field. Horror fiction authority John Pelan provides a new introduction detailing the importance of Paul Ernst in the weird menace fiction scene. Twelve Who Were Damned, (c) Dime Mystery November 1937 Brides of the Dust Demon, (c), Dime Mystery December 1936 The Pallid Furies, (c) Dime Mystery November 1935 Danse Macabre, (c) Dime Mystery May 1935 The Town the Dead Things Claimed, (c) Dime Mystery July 1938 Death Dines Out, (c) Dime Mystery January 1936 Embrace of the Fire God (c) Dime Mystery February 1936 Horror in the Glass, (c) Dime Mystery March 1935 The Monster Who Worked in Clay (c) Dime Mystery March 1937 The Man Who Called on Death, (c) Dime Mystery Sept. 1935 Satan's Flower Shop (c) Dime Mystery October 1936 Madman's Circus (c) Horror Stories Fe