From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951 the magazine <I>Black Mask</I> 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 <I>Black Mask</I>. The urban crime stories that appeared in <I>Black Mask</I> 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” (<I>Booklist</I>).<BR /><BR />Otto Penzler selected and wrote introductions to the best of the best the darkest of these dark vintage stories for the collection <I>The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories</I>. Now that collection is available for the first time on audio.<BR /><BR />Includes:<LI>“The Black Bottle” by Whitman Chambers; read by Bart Tinapp</LI><LI>“The Corpse Didn't Kick” by Milton K. Ozaki; read by Bart Tinapp</LI><LI>“Try the Girl” by Raymond Chandler; read by Scott Brick</LI><LI>“Don't You Cry for Me” by Norbert Davis; read by Eric Conger</LI><LI>“T. McGuirk Steals a Diamond” by Ray Cummings; read by Alan Winter</LI><LI>“Wait for Me” by Steve Fisher; read by Carol Monda</LI><LI>“Ask Me Another” by Frank Gruber; read by Jeff Woodman </LI>