Jungle Stories, Spring 1946

This issue of Jungle Stories (Spring 1946) contains four fiction pieces set in African settings. The featured novel is "The Monsters of Voodoo Isle" by John Peter Drummond, beginning on page 2. A mysterious white doctor and his black assistant pursue a giant, misshapen creature called Moldar through the Congo. The beast—humanoid but grotesque, standing twice human height with a deformed face and sluggish intellect—can be controlled through food. Meanwhile, Ki-Gor, the white jungle lord, races through the territory on a separate mission. The narrative establishes conflict between the doctor's mysterious plans and Ki-Gor's presence in the region. Three novelets follow: "The Jungle of Charred Corpses" by Paul Selonke involves a fire-god cult and white men facing death; "Black Mahogany" by Dan Cushman features a treasure hunt for ebony wood complicated by a dancing girl named Seeva and a protagonist called Armless O'Neil; and "Red Rogue Killer" by Day Keene depicts a red-bearded man ruling through terror, with a young woman seeking him out as her supposed brother. "Death Plague of Mata-Gara" by John Starr completes the issue, featuring supernatural threats including a creature called the Gimshai's juju lion.