The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
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Overview:
- Title: The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
- Author: Otto Penzler
- Year: 2010
- ISBN-10: 9780307455437
- Publisher: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books
- Price: $25.00
- Pages: xix+1116
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: Cry Silence
- Notes:
- Publication date from Amazon.com.
- Contains fifty-two stories (including one short-story collection), and one novel (the original serialization of The Maltese Falcon from the pages of Black Mask magazine.
- Only authors with a background in speculative fiction are listed, a complete listing of stories and authors can be found on Amazon.com.
- Cover art is reprinted from the February 1942 issue of Black Mask, and is flipped.
- The Lester Dent story is original to this volume.
- All stories are printed in facsimile from their original pulp appearances, including the original illustrations.
- Each story has a one or two page introduction by Otto Penzler that talks about the author and puts the story into the historical perspective of detective fiction and/or the magazine.
- Almost all the stories have the original artwork, but none is credited and most is unsigned.