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Black Mask (UK) [v12 # 2, November 1933] (Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co. Ltd., 9d, 128p+ pulp, cover by J. W. Schlaikjer) [RP] 2 · Red Hot · T. B. Burt · ss Black Mask Jul ’22 7 · What Is Your Opinion? · editor · ed 8 · Stag Party [McFee] · Charles G. Booth · nv Black Mask Nov ’33 43 · Lay Down the Law · Frederick Nebel · ss Black Mask Nov ’33 60 · Not Tomorrow · Raoul F. Whitfield · ss Black Mask Nov ’33 77 · Pigeon Blood · Paul Cain · nv Black Mask Nov ’33 92 · Positively the Best Liar · W. T. Ballard · ss Black Mask Nov ’33 108 · Tip on the Gallant · Thomas Walsh · ss Black Mask Nov ’33 122 · Look Out For The Woman · George William Schattle · ss (r) 125 · Solution to Black Mask Mystery No. 6 and Can You Tell What Clue Egan Found · Misc. · pz
Black Mask (UK) [v17 #11, September 1939] (Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co. Ltd., 9d, 112p+ pulp, cover by J. George Janes) [RP] 2 · Death on the Prairie [Part 2 of ?] · Frank Collinson · ts 6 · Dark Alleys [Ed Jenkins] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Black Mask Sep ’39 33 · Behind The Black Mask · Anon. · bg Black Mask Sep ’39 [Erle Stanley Gardner] 34 · Headless Angel [Miles Standish Rice] · Baynard H. Kendrick · nv Black Mask Sep ’39 60 · Death to Spare · John Lawrence · ss Black Mask Sep ’39 73 · Crime by the Forelock · Cornell Woolrich · ss Black Mask Sep ’39 86 · Autopsies Tell · Bill Gerry · ss Black Mask Sep ’39 108 · I Guard Nudes · Peter Paige · ar Black Mask Sep ’39 112 · Black Mask Quiz · Misc. · cn Black Mask Sep ’39
Black Mask (UK) [July 1943] (9d, 64pp, pulp) Information from EBAY auction. · Dead as a Duck [Special Squad] · Stewart Sterling · nv Black Mask Jul ’43 · Danger—Mind at Work! [Doc Rennie] · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · nv Black Mask Jul ’43 · The Cat with 10 Lives [Sah-jin] · Walter C. Brown · ss Black Mask Jul ’43 · Murderer’s Way · Henry Norton · ss Black Mask Jul ’43 · Loser Takes All · Julius Long · ss Black Mask Jul ’43
Black Mask (UK) [December 1943] (9d, pulp) Information from EBAY auction. · The Incredible Mister Smith [Ed Jenkins] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Black Mask Mar ’43 · Coffin #3 · Philip Ketchum · nv Black Mask Mar ’43 · The Whole Worm · Alan Farley · ss Dime Detective Magazine Aug ’43
Black Mask (UK) [v 5 # 6, July 1946] (1/-, 64pp+, pulp) · Deadline for Death · Thomson Burtis · ss Black Mask Feb ’46 · Murder Lode · Dale Clark · ss Black Mask Feb ’46 · Flowers for Flanagan · Julius Long · ss Black Mask Feb ’46 · Accounts Deceivable · Ted Stratton · ss Black Mask Feb ’46
Black Mask (UK) [September 1946] (9d, 64pp, pulp) Information from EBAY auction. · Forgive Not Our Trespassers [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv Black Mask Mar ’46 · You’re the Crime in My Coffin · H. H. Stinson · ss Black Mask Mar ’46 · Homicide Hangover · Dick Pearce · ss Black Mask Mar ’46 · One Fall for Murder · K. Webster · ss Black Mask Mar ’46
Black Mask (UK) [v 5 # 9, December 1946] (1/-, 64pp+, pulp) from TOC. [Jim Felton] 2 · Murder by the Carton · Julius Long · nv Black Mask May ’46 21 · My Gun Hires Legitimate · William Rough · nv Black Mask May ’46 41 · The Early Corpse Gets the Worm · Dale Clark · ss Black Mask May ’46 54 · The Case of the Mind-Reading Seal · Harry Epstein · ss Black Mask May ’46 60 · The Mad Dog of Lame Creek · Thorne Lee · ss Black Mask Mar ’46
Black Mask (UK) [v 5 #12, June 1947] (1/-, 64pp+, pulp) · The Cold, Cold Ground · William Campbell Gault · nv Black Mask Jan ’47 · Heavenly Homicide · Dale Clark · ss Black Mask Jan ’47 · I Remember Murder · Julius Long · ss Black Mask Jan ’47 · Unholy Matrimony · H. H. Stinson · ss Black Mask May ’46
Black Mask (UK) [v 6 # 2, October 1947] (1/-, 64pp+, pulp) · Infernal Revenue · D. L. Champion · nv Black Mask Nov ’46 · Murder in the Mails · Robert C. Dennis · ss Black Mask Nov ’46 · Shake Well and Kill · Jack Karney · ss Black Mask Nov ’46 · The Brooklyn Eye · C. M. Kornbluth · ss Black Mask Nov ’46
Black Mask (UK) [December 1947] (9d, 64pp, pulp) Information from EBAY auction. · The Constant Shadow [Mortimer Jones] · William Campbell Gault · nv Black Mask Jul ’47 · Murder’s No Libel [Kenny O’Hara] · H. H. Stinson · nv Black Mask Jul ’47 · Never Call the Cops · Ed Edstrom · ss Black Mask Jul ’47 · Shot From In Close · Paul Komisaruk · ss Black Mask Nov ’46
Black Mask (UK) [v 6 # 9, December 1948] (1/-, 64pp+, pulp) from TOC. [Jim Felton] 2 · Murder Is a Pleasure · H. H. Stinson · nv Black Mask Sep ’48 18 · A Corpse Can’t Run · D. L. Champion · ss Black Mask Sep ’48 31 · Side Bet on Death · R. M. F. Jones · ss Black Mask Sep ’48 46 · The Case of the Carved Model · John D. MacDonald · ss Black Mask Sep ’48 53 · Can You Take the Witness? · Julius Long · qz Black Mask Sep ’48 55 · Shoot If You Must · Barry Cord · ss Black Mask Sep ’48
Black Mask (UK) [v 6 #12, June 1949] (Atlas Publishing, 1/-, 64pp+, pulp) Cover reprinted from January 1949 U.S. issue. [MH] 2 · No Pockets in a Shroud [Manville Moon] · Richard Deming · na Black Mask Jan ’49 33 · Trouble on Circuit 13 · Robert J. McCaig · ss Black Mask Jan ’49 41 · Legitimately Dead · G. T. Fleming-Roberts · nv Black Mask Jan ’49 56 · Ear-Witness · Maurice Beam · ss Black Mask Jan ’49 59 · Somebody for the Wolves · Robinson MacLean · ss Black Mask Jan ’49 63 · Can You Take the Witness? · Julius Long · pz (r)
Black Mask Detective (UK) [v 7 # 3, January 1950] (Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co. Ltd., 9d, 64pp+, pulp) [Jim Felton] 3 · These Dead Hands Reaching · Robert P. Toombs · nv Black Mask Jul ’49 16 · Richest Man in the Graveyard [Clinton L. Colby] · Robert Martin · nv Black Mask Jul ’49 31 · Big Shots Die Young · Richard Deming · nv Black Mask Jul ’49 49 · Last Kill and Testament · Frank Gordon · ss Black Mask Jul ’49 51 · Death’s 43 Days · Edward A. Herron · ss Black Mask Jul ’49 53 · Her Dagger Before Me [Lloyd Carter; Ed Rivers] · Talmage Powell · nv Black Mask Jul ’49
Black Mask Detective (UK) [v 7 # 4, February 1950] (Popular Publications, 9d, 64pp+, pulp) [Jim Felton] 3 · Sing a Song of Murder · Lawrence Treat · ss Black Mask Jun ’39 10 · Let’s All Swing Together [Clinton L. Colby] · Robert Martin · nv Black Mask Mar ’49 27 · Flaming Angel · Frederick C. Davis · nv Black Mask Mar ’49 39 · Killing All Men! · John D. MacDonald · na Black Mask Mar ’49 55 · Frame for a Dame · Dean Evans · ss Black Mask Mar ’49 61 · The High Cost of Dying · Edward Van Der Rhoer · ss Black Mask Mar ’49
Black Mask Detective (UK) [v 7 # 6, May 1950] (9d, 64pp+, pulp) [Jim Felton, from ToC] 3 · Dirge in Bolero Time [Clinton L. Colby] · Robert Martin · na Black Mask Jan ’50 20 · Death for a Dollar · D. L. Champion · ss Black Mask Mar ’44 33 · Come Hell or Hot Water! · Tedd Thomey · ss Black Mask Jan ’50 40 · The Lady Grooms a Corpse · Bruno Fischer · ss Black Mask Jan ’50 51 · Swansong for an Ugly Duckling · Marian O’Hearn · ss Black Mask Mar ’50
Black Mask Detective (UK) [v 7 # 8, July 1950] (9d, 64pp+, pulp) [MH] 2 · She, Me and Murder [Jim Bennett] · Robert Martin · nv Dime Detective Magazine Nov ’48 21 · Death Comes Gift-Wrapped · William P. McGivern · ss Dime Detective Magazine Nov ’48 27 · Three Men and a Corpse · Victor K. Kay · ss Dime Detective Magazine Nov ’48 31 · The Hunter and the Hellcat · Frank Ward · ss Dime Detective Magazine Nov ’48 41 · Lethally Yours · Val Gendron · ss Dime Detective Magazine Nov ’48 46 · Sucker’s Fury · Henry Norton · ss Dime Detective Magazine Nov ’48 57 · Moonlight ’n Murder · Graham Goulden · ss Black Mask Nov ’49 64 · Bullets, Ballistics and Bloodshed · J. E. B. Cole · ?? (r)
Black Mask Detective (UK) [v 8 # 4, March 1951] (64pp+, pulp) · Kill and Make Up · Mel Colton · ss Dime Detective Magazine Oct ’50 · Exclusive Sucker · Walter Snow · ss Dime Detective Magazine Oct ’50 · There Was a Crooked Man · Talmage Powell · ss Dime Detective Magazine Oct ’50 · Murder on the Make [Rack Ramsey] · Robert Martin · na Dime Detective Magazine Oct ’50 · Mourner’s Bench · W. P. Brothers · ss Dime Detective Magazine Oct ’50
Black Mask Detective (UK) [v 8 # 5, April 1951] (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co., Ltd., 64pp+, pulp) [Jim Felton, from ToC] 2 · Tri-Kill Cutie · John D. MacDonald · nv Dime Detective Magazine Nov ’50 32 · Slayers Burn Slow [Jim Bennett] · Robert Martin · nv Dime Detective Magazine Nov ’50 51 · A Bullet for Baby · Donn Mullally · ss Dime Detective Magazine Nov ’50 62 · Killer’s Luck · Raymond Drennen · ss Dime Detective Magazine Nov ’50
Black Mask Detective (UK) [v 9 # 8, July 1952] (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co., Ltd., 64pp+, pulp) [Jim Felton, from ToC] 2 · Sheathe Your Claws, Hellcat! [Jim Bennett] · Robert Martin · nv Dime Detective Magazine Apr ’50 21 · Blood on the Midway · Scott O’Hara · ss Dime Detective Magazine Apr ’50 34 · It’s Time to Squirm · Robert Turner · ss Dime Detective Magazine Apr ’50 40 · Rock-a-Bye Killer · John Bender · ss Dime Detective Magazine Apr ’50 48 · All Burned Up · Tedd Thomey · ss Dime Detective Magazine Apr ’50 55 · Derelict’s Dereliction · Alvin Yudkoff · ss Dime Detective Magazine Apr ’50 62 · For the Rest of Your Death · Robert Turner · ss Black Mask Detective Jan ’51
Black Mask Detective (UK) [v 9 #10, September 1952] (1/-, 64pp+, pulp) [LL] · Babes in the Morgue · Day Keene · ss Dime Detective Magazine Sep ’50 · Charity Begins at Homicide · Michael Morgan · ss Dime Detective Magazine Sep ’50 · Exit Smiling · John D. MacDonald · ss Dime Detective Magazine Sep ’50 · A Grave for Galahad · Robert Carlton · ss Dime Detective Magazine Sep ’50
Black Mask Detective (UK) [v10 # 1, December 1952] (Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co. Ltd., 1/-, 64pp+, pulp) [Jim Felton] 2 · Death Under Glass [Lee Fiske] · Robert Martin · nv Dime Detective Magazine Feb ’52 20 · No Bodies, Darling · Talmage Powell · nv Dime Detective Magazine Feb ’52 31 · Prelude to a Wake · Larry Holden · ss Dime Detective Magazine Feb ’52 41 · For Tomorrow We Die · Hank Searls · nv Dime Detective Magazine Feb ’52 57 · In Jail by Christmas · John Bender · nv Dime Detective Magazine Feb ’52 63 · According to Plan · Ray Darby · ss Dime Detective Magazine Feb ’52
Black Mask Detective (UK) [v10 # 3, February 1953] (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd., 9p, 64pp, pulp) [JE] 2 · The Corpse at the Mail Box · Carl Rathjen · nv Detective Tales Jun ’41 27 · Jackie Won’t Be Home · Dane Gregory · ss Detective Tales Jun ’41 31 · Aliens Must Register · Robert Duncan · ss Detective Tales Jun ’41 36 · When Suicide Is Murder · Don James · ss Detective Tales Jun ’41 45 · John Smith, Graveyard Detective [John Smith (#1)] · Wyatt Blassingame · ss Detective Tales Jun ’41 56 · Crime of Omission · John D. MacDonald · ss Detective Tales Aug ’51 59 · The Deadly Alibi · Burt Sims · ss Detective Tales Aug ’52
Black Mask Detective (UK) [v10 # 4, March 1953] (9p, 64pp+, pulp) [LL] · Case of the Vanishing Blonde · Craig Rice & Mark Hope · ss Dime Detective Magazine Dec ’52 · Lady-Killer · Larry Holden · ss Dime Detective Magazine Dec ’52 · Lady in Hades · V. E. Thiessen · ss Dime Detective Magazine Dec ’52 · Dying Room Only · John Bender · ss Dime Detective Magazine Dec ’52 · Death on a Platter · Andrew Holt · ss Dime Detective Magazine Dec ’52 · The Merry Wives of Murder · Tiah Devitt · ss Dime Detective Magazine Dec ’52
Black Oracle
Black Oracle [# 7, Fall 1973] ed. George Stover (George Stover; Baltimore, MD, 35¢, 44pp, 4½" x 5½") [Steve Miller] 3 · Editor’s Graveyard · George Stover · ed 4 · Crypt of Letters · George Stover · lc 6 · Playing Hyde and Seek with Dr. Jekyll · Steve Vertlieb · mr 9 · The Strange Green Bat of the Wood · Bruce Hallenbeck, Jr. · vi 11 · ’Star Trek’ Now an Odyssey of the Mind · Daniel F. Goldman · ar 16 · Lost Horizon... A Review · Steve Vertlieb · mr 20 · A Chat with Vincent Price · Bruce Gearhart · iv [Vincent Price] 26 · Black Oracle Book Reviews · Bruce Gearhart & Steven R. Miller · br 29 · Black Oracle Movie Reviews · John E. Parnum & Steve Vertlieb · mr 34 · The Cave · Steve Vertlieb · pm 35 · Chalice of Sodom and Gomorrah · Lewis Sanders · pm 42 · The Artist’s Corner · Helaine E. Carson, Ken Lodge & Richard Nethercott, Jr. · il
Black Orpheus
Black Orpheus [# 9, June 1961] ed. Ezekiel Mphahlele (; Ibadan, Nigeria, 72pp, 7½" x 10½") Only fiction listed. [CB] 4 · Kasim · Ibrahim Tahir · ss 22 · Jigida · Michael Okafor · ss 31 · The Flame Tree · Edris Saint Amand · ss 49 · The Gambler · Nkem Nwankwo · ss 57 · Creation Myth · Marthe Arnaud · ss
Black Orpheus [#14, February 1964] ed. Ezekiel Mphahlele (; Ibadan, Nigeria, 64pp, 7½" x 10") Only fiction listed. [CB] 21 · The Black Lion · Camara Laye · ss 26 · Revenge · Henri Krea · ss 48 · Tattoo Marks and Nails · Alex La Guma · ss 56 · The Bark · Bishr Fares · ss
Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine www.blackmag.com.au.
Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine [# 1, July 2008] ed. Angela Challis (Brimstone Press; Woodvale, WA, 1835-9248, $7.95, 56pp, 8¼" x 11¾" slick) Fiction only indexed. [James Doig/Denny Lien] 16 · Graduation Afternoon · Stephen King · ss Postscripts May, 2007 50 · Moments of Dying · Robert Hood · ss
Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine [# 2, September 2008] ed. Angela Challis (Brimstone Press; Woodvale, WA, 1835-9248, $7.95, 64pp, 8¼" x 11¾" slick) [Denny Lien] 16 · The Casting Out · Miranda Siemienowicz · vi 60 · Her Collection of Intimacy · Paul Haines · ss
Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine [# 3, November 2008] ed. Angela Challis (Brimstone Press; Woodvale, WA, 1835-9248, $7.95, 64pp, 8¼" x 11¾" slick) [James Doig] 29 · Transcendence · Liam Rands · ss 60 · Soul Mates · Kathryn Gossow · ss
BlackBook
BlackBook [#34, Fall 2004] ed. Aaron Hicklin (BlackBook Media Corp., $4.99, 230pp, slick bedsheet) subtitled “Progressive Culture.” Fiction only. [TM] · Hemingway Challenge: 132 · “Forgive me!” “What for?” “Never mind.” · John Updike · vi 132 · Eyeballed me, killed him. Slight exaggeration. · Irvine Welsh · vi 132 · Satan—Jehovah—fifteen rounds. A draw. · Norman Mailer · vi 132 · “Welcome to Moeshe Christiansen’s Bar Mitzvah” · Andrea Siegel · vi 132 · grass, cow, calf, milk, cheese, France · Rick Moody · vi 132 · He remembered something that never happened. · A. M. Homes · vi 132 · Saigon hotel. Decades later. He weeps. · Robert Olen Butler · vi 132 · She gave. He took. He forgot. · Tobias Wolff · vi 132 · I love you... —Love ya back. · Courtney Eldridge · vi 132 · You are not shit. You are! · Jerry Stahl · vi 132 · All her life: half a house. · Jamie O’Neill · vi 133 · Poison; meditation; skiing; ants—nothing worked. · Edward Albee · vi 133 · My nemesis is dead. Now what? · Michael Cunningham · vi 133 · I saw. I conquered. Couldn’t come · David Lodge · vi 133 · “Cyanide? Bitter almonds.” He knew. How? · Brian Bouldrey · vi 133 · Father died. Mother triumphed. I left. · Mary Gaitskill · vi 133 · “You? Her? No dice, fat boy.” · Pinckney Benedict · vi 133 · Oh that? It’s nothing. Not contagious. · Augusten Burroughs · vi 133 · Mother’s Day came, doubling Oedipus’ pleasure. · Bruce Benderson · vi 133 · Tossed remoreslessly, whiffle balls sure hurt. · J. T. LeRoy · vi 133 · As she fell, her mind wandered. · Rebecca Miller · vi 133 · It’s negative. Say hi to Mom. · Ben Greenman · vi 133 · A Short History of Academia [Horny professor. Failing coed. No tenure.] · Sue Grafton · vi 133 · Shiva destroys Earth: “Well, that’s that.” · A. G. Pasquella · vi 133 · Havana’s no place for hockey, coach. · Nicholas Weinstock · vi 194 · My Mother was a Monster · Ryan Bourdinot · ss; (inspired by “Untitled” [cartoon with legend “My mother was a monster who ate children.”] by Raymond Pettibon, reproduced here) 198 · Tiger Mending · Aimee Bender · ss; (inspired by painting “Tiger Mending” by Amy Culler, reproduced here)

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