The Frosted Death

Written by Paul Ernst, it was published in the January 1, 1940 issue of The Avenger magazine.

The Sangaman-Veshnir drug company has discovered a fast-growing mold that grows on meat, covering the victim with a powdered sugar-like coating: "The Frosted Death".

Kindly-seeming, thoroughly evil Veshnir murders to keep the mold secret: he has a deal with Germany to mass-produce it as a weapon of war.

At his secret estate in Maine, Veshnir has set up a production facility, using dying men enslaved by blowing some mold into their brains.

Benson quickly contains mould outbreaks, using detective work to identify the source.