This magazine was short-lived, with only three issues published. But what issues they were! As the title promised, inside were found a variety of short novels, from detective stories to sea stories to westerns to the eerie, each one filled with all the pulp action and thrills a reader could ask for. From Ace Magazines, also known as Periodical House, came 10 Short Novels magazine, which featured some of the most exciting short novels around. Periodical House, aka Ace Magazines, published the first issue in October of 1938. But by the March/April 1939 issue, the magazine folded. For those three issues, readers happily plunked down their 15¢ and entered a world of exciting pulp fiction. 10 Short Novels returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Adventure
War’s Watchdogs
by Ralph Powers
In Britain’s great citadel of the Far East, two secret forces are locked in a strange, deadly combat.
Baseball
Diamond Dynamite
by John Gregory
A fireball twirler serves up home-run hatred.
Sea
Trigger Typhoon
by John Dorman
Skipper Nelson’s destination is the double-crossroads of the sea.
Detective
Hell Tracks of the Dragon
by Jack Archer
G-Man Hint meets a beautiful woman with the eyes of Satan.
Western
Mystery Range
by Cliff Howe
A pistol puzzle leads a cowpuncher into a hemp noose.
Eerie
Black Knight’s Bondage
by Eric Lennox
Vengeance rides from the dim mists of time.
Flying
Medals to the Craven
by Major George Fielding Eliot
Bob Sexton downs a German ace — but can’t claim the victory.
Northwest Mounted
The Frozen Empire
by Clint Douglas
“Jinx” Herbert of the Mounted trails killers — and Herbert’s pet jinx trails him.
Mystery
Fortress of Fear
by Ronald Flagg
The one man who knew the secret of a treachery-choked republic — was forbidden to reveal it.
Boxing
The Dressing-Room Champ
by Paul Adams
A slap-happy chump takes a risk on a remedy he knows is not a cure.
10 Short Novels 