The original 1939 blurb for this story reads: “Molding corpses stalk darkness as fate cuts a grim, macabre jigsaw of death!” Today you would except a zombie story, as with the hit TV show “The Walking Dead,” but in the original pages of the pulp magazine Thrilling Mystery, you get the opposite — a classic crime story by one of the best pulp writers of the era. The dead may walk, but there is always a rational explanation, now matter how sensational the blurb.
