The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories

by Otto Penzler and Keith Alan Deutsch

Book Overview

An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307455432
• ISBN13: 9780307455437
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Length: 1136 Pages
• Weight: 2.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Some of the best pulp fiction written

The Black Mask anthology gathered takes you down rain slick streets, rotting buildings, dives, big cities and small towns with dark and dirty secrets. It has greedy gold-digging women, desperate men, kids with hearts of gold, and would-be heroes with their own code of ethics and honor. All while gun smoke hangs in the air like cheap perfume, every back alley is a dead end, and reality is a bullet in a chamber, a shot of whisky in a glass or a punch to the stomach. It features Hammett's original Sam Spade and many others. All in a collection the size of a phone book. If you love classic detective fiction, you'll love this collection of Black Mask from Black Lizard.