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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 the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine (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: The Color of Honor by Richard Connell; read by Bart Tinapp Middleman for Murder by Bruno Fischer; read by Scott Brick The Man Who Chose the Devil by Richard Deming; read by Eric Conger Beer-Bottle Polka by C. M. Kornbluth; read by Johnny Heller Borrowed Crime by Cornell Woolrich; read by Johnny Heller

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Scott Brick has recorded bestsellers and Pulitzer Prize winners in every conceivable category, over 800 titles since his debut in 1999. A Grammy nominee, Scott has won over fifty Earphones Awards, five Audie Awards, and has twice been named Publishers Weekly's Narrator of the Year. After AudioFile Magazine proclaimed him a Golden Voice, his work was thereafter profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Entertainment Weekly. In 2015, Scott began teaching the nation's first fully-accredited university course devoted solely to audiobook narration at UCLA. Johnny Heller has recorded over eight hundred titles and won multiple Earphones Awards and four prestigious Audie Awards. He one of AudioFile's Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century and was awarded a Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. Eric Conger has narrated more than 80 audiobooks, and AudioFile magazine has called him ...simply the best. With no self-consciousness or discernable vocal flaws, his energy and emotional investment are consistent start to finish. Conger has worked on a number of audiobooks that have garnered Earphones Awards, including William D. Novelli and Boe Workman's 50+ and Frederick Forsyth's Avenger, both published by Macmillan Audio. Eric is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Paris. He's appeared in over 50 plays and has also translated plays of Moliere and Feydeau for regional theaters. His voiceover work is extensive, and he's produced over 5,200 narrations for commercial ventures. He works primarily from his home studio in Weehawken, NJ, where he lives with his wife Gayle and two children. Otto Penzler is the founder of the Mysterious Press and owns the Mysterious Press specialist bookshop in New York. Otto Penzler is the founder of the Mysterious Press and owns the Mysterious Press specialist bookshop in New York. Otto Penzler is the founder of the Mysterious Press and owns the Mysterious Press specialist bookshop in New York. Coming soon...

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