Black Mask 7 The Shrieking Skeleton, Otto Penzler
Black Mask 7 The Shrieking Skeleton, Otto Penzler
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Black Mask 7: The Shrieking Skeleton
And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

Author: Otto Penzler

Narrator: Richard Ferrone, Peter Ganim, David Ledoux

Unabridged: 6 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2012


Synopsis

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:“A Taste for Cognac” by Brett Halliday; read by Peter Ganim“Sauce for the Gander” by Day Keene; read by Richard Ferrone“A Little Different” by W. T. Ballard; read by Jeff Gurner“The Shrieking Skeleton” by Charles M. Green; read by David LeDoux“Drop Dead Twice” by Hank Searls; read by Jeff Gurner

About Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA's Ellery Queen Award, and the Raven Award. He has been given Lifetime Achievement awards by Noircon and the Strand Magazine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David

Another fun collection of detective fiction. It had the first Bill Lenox story in it, which I never knew of and I think they are awesome. The Earl Stanley Gardner piece, the Shrieking Skeleton is horrible, just plain bad, but how can you read pulp and not enjoy yourself with a few stinkers.......more