Nobody knew that Gruin had killed his sweetheart, but her little red heels tapped a march of death wherever he went, driving him to a desperate resolve.

Today's story is Clicking Red Heels, by Paul Ernst. It appeared in the June 1937 issue of Weird Tales on pages 668 to 677.

Paul Frederick Ernst (November 7, 1899, Akron, Ohio – September 21, 1985, Pinellas County, Florida) was an American pulp fiction writer. He is best known as the writer of the original 24 "Avenger" novels, published by Street & Smith under the house name Kenneth Robeson.

His stories appeared in a number of early science fiction and fantasy magazines, including Astounding Stories, Strange Tales and Amazing, and he was the author of the Doctor Satan series (8 stories in all) which ran in Weird Tales from 1935 to 1936. His most famous work was the original 24 “The Avenger” stories in the eponymous pulp magazine between 1939 and 1942.

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