Stories from Terror Tales Magazine

Terror Tales was one of the most lurid pulp horror magazines of the 1930s, and Arthur Leo Zagat was among its most prolific contributors. These fourteen novelettes, published between 1934 and 1937, showcase the full range of Depression-era weird fiction: haunted houses where the dead refuse to stay buried, sinister laboratories, vengeful revenants, and ordinary people plunged into nightmares of escalating horror. Zagat’s prose races forward with pulp urgency, building suspense through short chapters and cliffhanger endings. The stories collected here—from “House of Living Death” (1934) to “Revels for the Lusting Dead” (1937)—are a concentrated dose of the dark imagination that kept readers coming back to the newsstand month after month.