Curse of the Crimson Horde

Written by Paul Chadwick

Copyright 1938

Published in the 09/1938 issue of Secret Agent X.
"Over a chessboard of death an unseen hand moved living pawns across six thousand miles and spawning two continents. The stake was the life blood of a nation, the symbol - the Red Maggot - a fire to unholy ambition, the possession of which bound a man's soul to the Devil. And Secret Agent X - the man of a thousand faces and conqueror of kings of crime - found himself parried by the ageless weapons and black magic of the Far East."