Black Mask (magazine)

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Black Mask was a pulp magazine first published in April 1920 by the journalist H. L. Mencken and the drama critic George Jean Nathan. It is most well-known today for launching the hardboiled crime subgenre of mystery fiction, publishing now-classic works by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Cornell Woolrich, Paul Cain, Carroll John Daly, and others.

Read on Wikipedia · Image Cover Artwork: H. C. Murphy (1886-1931) Publication: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Public domain