From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by âthe seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazineâ (Booklist).
Otto Penzler selected and wrote introductions to the best of the best, the darkest of these dark, vintage stories for the collection The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories. Now that collection is available for the first time on audio.
Includes: âThe Black Bottleâ by Whitman Chambers; read by Bart Tinapp âThe Corpse Didn't Kickâ by Milton K. Ozaki; read by Bart Tinapp âTry the Girlâ by Raymond Chandler; read by Scott Brick âDon't You Cry for Meâ by Norbert Davis; read by Eric Conger âT. McGuirk Steals a Diamondâ by Ray Cummings; read by Alan Winter âWait for Meâ by Steve Fisher; read by Carol Monda âAsk Me Anotherâ by Frank Gruber; read by Jeff Woodman