Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue. This time around, it includes nine new stories in the Black Mask vein by Brian Townsley, Jane Jakeman, Brian Stanley, Hannah Honeybun, William Burton McCormick, Frank Megna, Jonathan Sheppard, Michael Bracken, Jim Doherty, as well as a new article on Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister by Katrina Younes. In addition, Boris Dralyuk has kindly supplied his translation of Isaac Babel’s “Lyubka the Cossack” and arranged for its reprinting here.
And, as with previous issues, Black Mask collects some of the best hard-boiled detective fiction from the Popular Publications vaults, as written by some of the genre’s best: Dashiell Hammett, D.L. Champion, Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel, T.T. Flynn, and Frederick C. Davis.
by Brian Townsley, Jane Jakeman, Brian Stanley, Hannah Honeybun, Katrina Younes, William Burton McCormick, Frank Megna, Michael Bracken, Jonathan Sheppard, Jim Doherty, Isaac Babel, Boris Dralyuk, D.L. Champion, Dashiell Hammett, Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel, T.T. Flynn, and Frederick C. Davis
Black Mask (2019 Yearbook) contains the following stories:
- “Prize Fight” by Brian Townsley
- “In Custody” by Jane Jakeman
- “Fight Music” by Brian Stanley
- “Innocent Made Guilty” by Hannah Honeybun
- “The Evolution of the Femme Fatale in Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister” by Katrina Younes
- “Lady Death” by William Burton McCormick
- “Sucker Punch” by Frank Megna
- “The Maltese Terrier” by Michael Bracken
- “The Guilty” by Jonathan Sheppard
- “Twelve Good Men and True” by Jim Doherty
- “Lyubka the Cossack” by Isaac Babel, with Boris Dralyuk
- “Lock the Death House Door!” by D.L. Champion
- “Slippery Fingers” by Dashiell Hammett
- “Three Gun Terry” by Carroll John Daly
- “Nobody’s Fall Guy” by Frederick Nebel
- “Kentucky Kickback” by T.T. Flynn
- “The Green Ghoul” by Frederick C. Davis
