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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, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine. Johnny Heller, winner of numerous Earphones and Audie Awards, was named a ""Golden Voice"" by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has been a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award winner from 2008 through 2013 and he has been named a top voice of 2008 and 2009 and selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine. Eric Conger is a stage actor, voice artist, and award-winning audiobook narrator. He has narrated more than 125 fiction and nonfiction audiobooks and was a four-time finalist for the Audie Award, both as a sole narrator in 2007 and 2008 and as part of a multicast reading in 2001 and 2012. He has earned numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards. His extensive voice-over work includes more than 5,000 narrations for commercial ventures. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Paris, he also works as a writer and playwright. He has appeared in over fifty plays and has also translated plays of Molière and Feydeau for regional theaters. Otto Penzler is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and the editor of many mystery anthologies, including The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, for which he won an Edgar Award. He also writes a weekly column, The Crime Scene, for the New York Sun. For seventeen years Penzler served as publisher of the Armchair Detective, the Edgar Award-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction. He has also created several publishing firms, such as the Mysterious Press, Otto Penzler Books, and the Armchair Detective Library. He lives in New York. Otto Penzler is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and the editor of many mystery anthologies, including The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, for which he won an Edgar Award. He also writes a weekly column, The Crime Scene, for the New York Sun. For seventeen years Penzler served as publisher of the Armchair Detective, the Edgar Award-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction. He has also created several publishing firms, such as the Mysterious Press, Otto Penzler Books, and the Armchair Detective Library. He lives in New York. Otto Penzler is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and the editor of many mystery anthologies, including The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, for which he won an Edgar Award. He also writes a weekly column, The Crime Scene, for the New York Sun. For seventeen years Penzler served as publisher of the Armchair Detective, the Edgar Award-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction. He has also created several publishing firms, such as the Mysterious Press, Otto Penzler Books, and the Armchair Detective Library. He lives in New York. Coming soon...

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