Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.

Responsive image


Black Mask (magazine)

Black Mask
September 1929 cover of Black Mask, featuring part 1 of serialization of The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
EditorH. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan; Philip C. Cody (1924–1926) later Joseph Shaw, and Fanny Ellsworth (1936–1940)
CategoriesHardboiled
FrequencyStarted monthly, then twice a month after August 1922, then monthly in 1926
PublisherPro-Distributors Publishing Company, 1920–40; Popular Publications 1940–51
Founded1920
First issueApril 1920
Final issue1951
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Websiteblackmaskmagazine.com

Black Mask was a pulp magazine first published in April 1920[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ Michelle Denise Smith (2006). "Sour Cans and Love Slaves: National Politics and Cultural Authority in the Editing and Authorship of Canadian Pulp Magazines". Book History. 9: 261–289. doi:10.1353/bh.2006.0012. JSTOR 30227392.
  2. ^ Server, Lee (2014). Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers. Facts on File library of American literature. Facts On File, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-4381-0912-1. Retrieved 2023-06-08.

Previous Page Next Page






Black Mask (revista) Catalan Black Mask Danish Black Mask (revista) Spanish Black Mask (magazine) French Black Mask (periodico) Italian ブラック・マスク (雑誌) Japanese Black Mask Russian Black Mask (magazin) SH

Responsive image

Responsive image