10 Story Book, August 1938

This August 1938 issue of 10-Story Book (Vol. 37, No. 3) contains multiple short stories. "Thief of Love" by Bob Brown follows Katisha, an unmanageable geisha at a Tokyo brothel, who receives visits from a mysterious phantom lover who enters and exits through barred windows. The Madame eventually discovers the lover is a circus performer—the Human Eel from a nearby sideshow who signals Katisha via midnight drum beats. Another story presents the first-person monologue of a cigarette describing its mistreatment across various locations from Shanghai to San Francisco. A third narrative, written in vernacular prose, depicts a working-class narrator meeting and courting a blonde woman at a bar, where he fights another patron who touches her. Additional stories listed in the contents include "Murder in the Bronx" by Clara Chanin, "The Revenge of Sarras" by George Bronson-James, and "The Mixed-Up Case of Jasper Leigh" by James L. Dilley.