Books in series
#1
The Living Shadow
1931
The Living Shadow
#2
The Eyes of the Shadow
1931
MARKED TO DIE
Six prominent men were expecting a share in a glittering fortune. But, one by one, they were being brutally murdered. Until the Shadow discovered the plan—a plan so fiendish that only the twisted mind of a monster could have conceived it...
#3
The Shadow Laughs!
1931
A duel with Evil
When an innocent man is murdered under strange circumstances and a crack police detective is lured to his death, The Shadow sees the signs of a vicious plot. He uncovers a ruthless gang of counterfeiters, led by the most powerful and diabolical man in New York's underworld...
#4
The Red Menace
1932
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?
The Shadow lives by darkness, gliding through the waiting night unseen, a mocking laugh his only calling card. None who have trafficked in crime will ever forget him. The may sneer at the law...but not at The Shadow. Each generation of evil breeds a newer, stronger root, and The Shadow's latest adversary is no exception: The Red Menace. This brilliant, diabolical political assassin has decided to play both sides of the Revolution in order to steal the ultimate weapon...and invincible power. Time is running out if The Shadow is to stop this crimson-masked megalomaniac from making his insane dreams come true!
Originally published in SHADOW magazine, Volume 1, Number 4, November 1931.
#5
Gangdom's Doom
1931
Chicago was paralyzed with gang wars. A major crime syndicate controlled the town. In this bloody scene where death was big business, The Shadow, in one of his most brilliant disguises, grappled with an underworld emperor who practiced the Domino Theory - with corpses!
#6
The Death Tower
1932
Men of enormous wealth were being found dead under strange circumstances. The Shadow sensed a devilish plot and entered into a duel of wits with the most brilliant and diabolical doctor in the world - a man so evil no crime was beyond him!
#7
The Silent Seven
from the Shadow's Private Annals
1932
Wealthy, powerful, conscienceless, a band of supercriminals wage death-filled battle with the master of crime detection. Originally published in SHADOW Magazine, Volume II, Number 1, February 1932
#8
The Black Master
1932
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 who has turned New York into a city of fear!
Not since Sherlock Holmes locked wits with Professor Moriarity have there been such formidible opponents on the battlefield of crime! The Shadow, the elusive voice in the night whose mocking laughter haunts all who have ever heard it; the man of many faces who is all things to all people in the name of justice. And The Black Master whose invisible hand kills the very men who serve him, leaving no trace, no quarter, not even an ounce of pity. Only terror...and a black metal tag which promises more to come.
The Shadow Vs. The Black Master—two mysterious legents, equally matched, in a contest of giants!
#9
The Mobsmen On The Spot
1932
The Shadow series, Maxwell Grant, Pyramid paperbacks 1-13 in the ‘0-515 N” series. One through 12 are cover-priced at 95-cents, number 13 is $1.25. All have black spines and white text. All were printed between 1974 and 1977, all are edge-stained green with cover art by . Sold as a set. Good. All have signs of rubbing, soiling and creases but still show bright artwork and strong lettering to the spine. Number 8, top edge creased. Numbers 1, 2 and 3 and corner creases on the cover. A few have light water stains that do not affect the covers or text on the pages.
#10
Hands in the Dark
1932
Pyramid #N3557, 1975. First printing in VG+ condition. Rubs to the spine tips and two faint creases to the front wrapper. Cover by Steranko. Some of this is okay, but "First printing in VG+ condition. Rubs to the spine tips and two faint creases to the front wrapper." is specific to one seller's copy of the book and should not be part of the general product description. Better to remove that and just leave it as "Pyramid #N3557, 1975. Cover by Steranko."
#11
Double Z
1932
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?
They died quickly, one after another. First was Joel Caulkins, "Wise Owl" reporter with the New York Classic, murdered just as he was about to name his executioner. Then came Philip Farmington, millionaire and international banker: dead of a poisoned cigar. The list grew daily as each of the victims received a note warning of his impending death, signed by the killer: "Double Z".
Clearly, Double Z was a man of his word...a gamesman with a zest for killing and a homicidal sense of humor. But the only laughter these days was the eerie echo of THE SHADOW, master crimefighter on call for the most challenging case of his career.
Originally published in SHADOW Magazine, Volume II, Number 5, June 1932.
#12
The Crime Cult
1932
A mysterious round burn no bigger than a dime scarred each forehead: upon each throat was a thin, almost invisible white line. It was obviously a case for The Shadow but the most famous crimefighter of all was missing. Had he finally succumbed to his brilliant adversary, the High Priest of the Cult of Kali?
#13
The Blackmail Ring
1932
The Shadow follows a bloody trail of extortion and murder that leads from the back alleys of Paris to the country homes of New England to confront "The Blackmail Ring"
#14
Hidden Death
1932
Murder of a Genius
When a mechanical genius is murdered at the moment of his greatest invention, THE SHADOW decodes a plan of linked deaths and traps a master killer in a bizarre and brilliant intrigue...
#15
Green Eyes
1932
There is a criminal empire being run by a mad genius out of San Francisco's Chinatown. Nobody knows who they are or when they will strike again. Only one man can bring down the vicious criminal operations. The Shadow!
#16
The Ghost Makers
1932
#17
The Five Chameleons
1932
The Shadow seeks to unmask The Five Chameleons, master villains whose uncanny ability to blend with their surroundings rivals his own.
Reprinted later in the Sanctum Books #57 with "The Wasp"
#18
Dead Men Live
1932
Lamont Cranston discovers that strange scientific secrets lurk behind a series of murders.
Reprinted in Sanctum Books #38 with "Dictator of Crime"
#19
The Romanoff Jewels
1932
The lofty towers of the Kremlin loomed like spectral spires against the darkened sky. Senov - master spider in a web of espionage - was about to ensnare America in the mose nefarious deal of all behind the guise of a trade detante, he and his treacherous American trusties will swap the Romanoff jewels for help in restoring the ancient Russian monarchy!
#20
Kings of Crime
1932
#21
Shadowed Millions
1932
"Against . . . princes of darkness stood a lone crime fighter. He was a master of stealth and disguise. With revolvers blazing, The Shadow would do battle once again with the forces of evil."
#22
The Creeping Death
1961
From the back The lure of gold – that lust which has made men kill throughout the ages – had gripped the enemies of justice. The swindle of the century threatened to put the world at the mercy of either a power-hungry, underhanded financier and his cohorts, or an eccentric creator of synthetic gold. But the common purpose which brought Forster, Morales, and Armagnac to inventor Lucien Partridge did not stop them from cunningly plotting behind each others’ backs. Only The Shadow could halt the creation of a Gold Empire. Garbed in black, silently stalking the streets, he alone could triumph over evil. The insidious princes of the underworld would be crushed by this Master Crime-Fighter – The Shadow!
#23
The Shadow's Shadow
1933
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
It was to be the perfect crime. A daring heist that would net the greedy mobsters undreamed-of millions. And with internation criminal mastermind Felix Zubian and ace gunman Gat Hackett at the head of the determined gang, nothing could go wrong.
Nothing, that is, except the unwelcome intervention of The Shadow, phantom of the night, scourge of evildoers everywhere. The conspirators of crime h it upon a grim, ingenious scheme—use The Shadow's own dreaded techniques of stealth and surprise against him. In short, shadow The Shadow—and blast him into the grave!
#24
Six Men of Evil
1933
As originally published in "The Shadow Magazine," February 15, 1933.
Pyramid reprint #16
#25
Fingers of Death
1933
As originally published in "The Shadow Magazine," March 1, 1933.
#26
Murder Trail
1933
Originally published in "The Shadow Magazine," March 15, 1933.
#29
The Golden Grotto
1933
Originally published in "The Shadow Magazine," May 1, 1933.
#30
The Death Giver
1978
Some rubbing & edgewear; creases; couple scratches; yellowing; otherwise overall clean & tight. 160 pages
#31
The Red Blot
1933
#32
The Ghost of the Manor
1933
#34
The Silver Scourge
1933
Pulp magazine published by Street and Smith. The hero is known as "The Shadow"
#35
The Black Hush
1933
#36
Isle of Doubt
1933
Pulp magazine
#37
Grove of Doom
1933
Vintage paperback
#38
Master of Death
1933
#39
The Road of Crime
1933
#40
The Death Triangle
1933
Detective fiction
#41
The Killer
1933
#42
Mox
1933
Originally published in Shadow magazine, Volume VII, #6, November 1933.
#43
The Crime Clinic
1933
#45
The Embassy Murders
1934
#46
The Wealth Seeker
1978
Some rubbing & edgewear; some creases; yellowing; overall clean & tight. 158 pages
#47
The Black Falcon
1934
The Black Falcon, a mysterious master of crime, has solved the Shadow's identity by cracking one of The Shadow's clever disguise. Keeping his own identity hidden, The Black Falcon assigns an evil henchman named Terry Rukes to carry out a bold kidnapping plan and capture The Shadow. With his identity compromised, the Shadow takes flight to avoid capture and triumph against this worthy foe.
#48
Gray Fist
1934
GRANT, The Shadow # 15: Gray Fist. New York, Pyramid Books, 1977. Pyramid # 4207. First Book Edition-Paperback Original. Softcover, 174 pp. (Originally published in The Shadow February, 1934. Novel / Pulp-Adventure Fiction / Science-Fantasy / The Shadow Series. Book Very Good + . Reading crease adjacent to book-spine. Overall, book is in excellent condition – pages clean & unmarked. Original collector's $16.00 – in VG/F (quoted in the I-Guide.net's Collectible Paperback Price Guide). Outstanding pulp-adventure from its golden age. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men (and women)? The Shadow Knows! 0515042072
#49
Circle Of Death
1934
#51
The Cobra
1934
As originally published in "The Shadow Magazine," April 1, 1934. The famed might of The Shadow seemed to be on the wane, giving way to a new and more destructive warrior - The Cobra!
#52
Crime Circus
1934
#53
Tower of Death
1934
#54
Death Clew
1934
Detective story with illustrations
#55
The Key
1934
#56
The Crime Crypt
1934
#57
Charg, Monster
1977
A story of a hideous monster, an unbelievable killer—and a fight for super power.
#58
Chain of Death
1934
#60
Gypsy Vengeance
1934
#61
Spoils of the Shadow
1934
#62
The Garaucan Swindle
1934
#63
Murder Marsh
1934
#67
The Unseen Killer
1934
#68
Cyro
1934
#72
The Dark Death
1935
#73
Crooks Go Straight
1935
#74
Bells of Doom
1935
#75
Lingo
1935
#77
The Golden Quest
1935
#78
The Third Skull
1935
#79
Murder Every Hour
1935
#80
The Condor
1935
#81
The Fate Joss
1935
#83
The Man From Scotland Yard
1935
#84
The Creeper
1935
#85
Mardi Gras Mystery
1935
#87
The Ribbon Clues
1935
#89
The Chinese Tapestry
1935
#91
Zemba
1933
It began with a murderous game of cat-and-mouse played on trains hurtling between London and Paris. When the game was over, three men were dead, and the terrible truth was the most critical military secrets of the Western powers were in the hands of the legendary Parisian arch-criminal, Gaspard Zemba! The police find and destroy Zemba. But how? His henchmen roamed every street and alley in Paris, yet he himself was so cunning, so elusive that no officer of the law had ever seen him, much less apprehended him. Here indeed was a master of darkness, without peer in the world. Except one. One whose astonishing skills at moving by night and disguising his person were employed in the service of good, not evil. One whose lightning-fast hands wielded the blazing automatics of justice, not crime. One whose implacable pursuit was the despair of villains everywHere
#94
Castle of Doom
1935
#97
The Voodoo Master
1936
The Shadow matches wits against Dr. Rodil Mocquino, the so-called Voodoo Master. Dr. Mocquino possesses a strange hypnotic power over men that causes them to do his bidding like mindless zombies. When the evil Voodoo Doctor creates an army of walking dead drones to carry out his latest vile plan, it's up to The Shadow to put an end to the black magic and the doctor himself.
#98
The Third Shadow
1936
#99
The Salamanders
1936
#101
The Gray Ghost
1936
#106
The Broken Napoleons
1936
#107
The Sledge-hammer Crimes
1936
#109
The Golden Masks
1936
#111
City of Crime
1936
#113
Partners of Peril
1936
In this full-cast production of the classic pulp novel, The Shadow investigates as, one by one, the partners in a chemical company die mysterious deaths. The plot of Partners of Peril and much of the action is almost identical to "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate", the very first Batman story in Detective Comics #27, which appeared some years later. In fact the creators of Batman acknowledged they drew their inspiration for the Caped Crusader from this classic Shadow story.
#114
The Strange Disappearance of Joe Cardona
1936
"The Strange Disappearance of Joe Cardona" sets The Shadow on the trail of the Purple Death.
The first half of the Sanctum reprint that combined it with The Hand.
#115
Seven drops of blood
1936
#118
Foxhound
1937
#120
Quetzal
1937
#124
The Masked Headsman
1937
#126
Treasure Trail
1937
#128
The Shadow's Rival
1937
#130
House of Silence
1937
#131
The Shadow Unmasks
1937
For the first time in his long career as a master crime-fighter, The Shadow thrusts aside his veil of mystery. Not under one of his many aliases, but in his true identity, The Shadow reveals himself. In this battle against the underworld, the unfathomable past of the man known as The Shadow is finally exposed. Narrated by Kevin T. Collins, Mark Boyett, Jonathan Todd Ross, Marc Vietor, Richard Poe, Joe Barrett, Susannah Jones, David Marantz, Nick Sullivan, Jay Snyder, Scott Aiello, Gabriel Vaughan, Richard Ferrone, Kevin Pariseau, LJ Ganser, Jonathan Davis, and a full cast.
#133
Buried Evidence
1937
#134
The Radium Murders
1937
#137
Death Turrets
1937
#138
Teeth of the Dragon
1937
#140
Racket Town
1937
#141
The Crystal Buddha
1938
#142
Hills of Death
1938
#144
The Murder Master
1938
#145
The Golden Pagoda
1938
#146
Face of Doom
1938
#148
Serpents of Siva
1938
#149
Cards of Death
1938
#152
The Rackets King
1938
#154
The Golden Vulture
1938
#156
The Green Hoods
1938
#158
Crime Over Boston
1938
#159
The Dead Who Lived
1938
#162
Chicago Crime
1938
#165
Silver Skull
1939
#167
Realm of Doom
1939
#169
River of Death
1939
#171
Death Ship
1939
#173
Death's Harlequin
1939
#175
Smugglers of Death
1939
#178
Death From Nowhere
1939
#181
The Crime Ray
1939
#182
The Shadow and the Golden Master
1939
Lamont Cranston, the Shadow, matches wits with the Oriental master criminal Shiwan Khan, in the first book publication of two classic novels from the original pulp magazine, "The Golden Master" and "Shiwan Khan Returns"
#184
The Masked Lady
1939
#185
Ships of Doom
1939
#188
House of Shadows
1939
#191
The Getaway Ring
1940
#194
The Veiled Prophet
1940
#198
Masters of Death
1940
#202
Gems of Doom
1940
#203
Crime at Seven Oaks
1940
#206
The Man Who Died Twice
1940
#207
The Wasp
1940
The Shadow battles a crime master called 'The Wasp' who lures unsophisticated young men from small towns into a life of crime through temptation and blackmail.
#208
City of Fear
2025
#209
Crime Over Miami
2025
#211
Xitli, God of Fire
2025
#212
The Shadow, The Hawk and The Skull
2025
#213
Forgotten Gold
2025
#214
The Green Terror
2025
#215
The Wasp Returns
1941
#216
The Chinese Primrose
1941
#220
The House on the Ledge
1941
#221
The League of Death
1941
#222
Master of Flame
1941
#223
Crime Under Cover
1941
#225
The Star of Delhi
1941
#227
The Crimson Death
1941
#229
Gems of Jeopardy
1941
#230
The Devil-Master
1941
#239
Death Diamonds
1942
#240
Blue Face
1942
#243
Room of Doom
1942
#245
The Northdale Mystery
1942
#246
Death's Bright Finger
1942
#249
Five Ivory Boxes
1942
#250
Death About Town
1942
#256
Clue for Clue
1942
#260
The Money Master
1942
#262
Death's Masquerade
1943
#263
The Devil Monsters
1943
#264
Wizard of Crime
1939
#269
The Golden Doom
1943
#277
The Toll of Death
1944
#288
Merry Mrs. MacBeth
1945
#292
Three Stamps of Death
1945
#299
The Banshee Murders
1946
#300
Crime out of Mind
1946
#312
Murder in White
1947
#315
Svengali Kill
1947
#316
Jabberwocky Thrust
1947
The Shadow #316
#318
The Shadow #318 The Television Murders
1948
Published March 1, 1948 in The Shadow Magazine. Lamont Cranston assists in solving a murder broadcast to 10,000 viewers on a live television show.
#326
Return of the Shadow
1963
#327
The Shadow Strikes
1964
#329
Cry Shadow
1967
#330
The Shadow's Revenge
1967
A mysterious radiogram from an emerging African nation sets Lamont Cranston, the UN forces, Interpol and secret Israeli policewomen on one of the strangest manhunts in history. What they uncover is so bizarre, so weirdly fascinating and frightening that it seems to be of another world
#331
Mark of the Shadow
1966
An entire city was being disrupted by a rash of senseless killings. When The Shadow began to investigate, he uncovered clues that only deepened the mystery. A strange, but beautiful girl who could disappear in a puff of smoke. An organization named C.Y.P.H.E.R., whose specialty was motiveless murder—and lots of it.
Who was terrorizing the city of Santa Carla—and, more important, why?
Here is crime so weirdly fashioned that it baffles even The Shadow, in his most challenging assignment to date.
#332
Shadow -- Go Mad!
1966
Authors
Lester Dent
Author · 55 books
Lester Dent (1904–1959) was born in La Plata, Missouri. In his mid-twenties, he began publishing pulp fiction stories, and moved to New York City, where he developed the successful Doc Savage Magazine with Henry Ralston, head of Street and Smith, a leading pulp publisher. The magazine ran from 1933 until 1949 and included 181 novel-length stories, of which Dent wrote the vast majority under the house name Kenneth Robeson. He also published mystery novels in a variety of genres, including the Chance Molloy series about a self-made airline owner. Dent’s own life was quite adventurous; he prospected for gold in the Southwest, lived aboard a schooner for a few years, hunted treasure in the Caribbean, launched an aerial photography company, and was a member of the Explorer’s Club.
Bruce Elliott
Author · 4 books
Bruce Walter Gardner Lively Stacy Elliott was an American writer of mystery fiction, science fiction, and television scripts. He was also a magician who wrote several books on magic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce\_E...
Maxwell Grant
Author · 145 books
Maxwell Grant was a pseudonym often used by Walter B. Gibson to write stories of "The Shadow".
Theodore A. Tinsley
Author · 6 books
Theodore A. Tinsley (1894–1979) was a prolific noir author who wrote for all of the prominent pulp magazines, including Black Mask, Munsey’s Magazine, All Detective Magazine, and Action Stories. His best-known creations are Carrie Cashin, a private eye who became pulp fiction’s most popular female character, and Jerry Tracy, a gossip reporter with a nose for sniffing out murders.
