The Spider - The Complete Pulp Story Guide
#59 / vol.15 no.3
August 1938

The Devil's Candlesticks

Author: Wayne Rogers

Original Title: Crime Flies High

Plot: Embittered genius seeks to destroy New York's uppercrust, using drugs, hypnotism, deadly Hindus, Kali satues brimming with snakes, trap doors, and trick stairways and halls; Ten girls wearing oil-soaked rags are made into a wick.

Cover by John Newton Howitt

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