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...
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Black Mask may refer to: Black Mask (magazine), a pulp magazine launched in 1920 by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan Black Mask (film), a 1996 movie...
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Joseph Shaw (editor) (category American magazine editors)
August 2, 1952) was the editor of Black Mask magazine from 1926 to 1936. Before becoming the editor of Black Mask, Shaw had worked as a newspaper reporter...
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crime fiction genre. The genre originated in the 1920s, notably in Black Mask magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first...
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The Maltese Falcon (novel) (category Works originally published in Black Mask (magazine))
by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story is told entirely...
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The Dain Curse (category Works originally published in Black Mask (magazine))
Black Mask magazine in 1928 and 1929. The Dain Curse was originally serialized in four installments in the pulp magazine Black Mask: Part 1: "Black Lives"...
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Red Harvest (category Works originally published in Black Mask (magazine))
the pulp magazine Black Mask: Part 1: "The Cleansing of Poisonville", Black Mask, November 1927 Part 2: "Crime Wanted—Male or Female", Black Mask, December...
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character Race Williams, who appeared in a number of stories for Black Mask magazine in the 1920s. Daly was born on September 14, 1889, in Yonkers, New...
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October 1923 issue of Black Mask, making him one of the earliest hard-boiled private detective characters to appear in the pulp magazines of the early twentieth...
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The Glass Key (category Works originally published in Black Mask (magazine))
American writer Dashiell Hammett. First published as a serial in Black Mask magazine in 1930, it then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition...
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Blackmailers Don't Shoot (category Works originally published in Black Mask (magazine))
Raymond Chandler. It was first published in December 1933 in the magazine Black Mask. Rhonda Farr, an actress, is rejecting an ostensible blackmail attempt...
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The Gutting of Couffignal (category Works originally published in Black Mask (magazine))
cripple?" Hammett, Dashiell (December 1925). "The Gutting of Couffignal". Black Mask. New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company. Hammett, Dashiell (1945)...
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and ridiculous, but overall, they at least look darn good". Newsweek magazine's David Gates wrote, "no show this summer will do a better job of whisking...
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The House in Turk Street (category Works originally published in Black Mask (magazine))
Dashiell Hammett, featuring the Continental Op. It was first published in Black Mask in April 1924. This story indicates Hammett was turning towards themes...
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story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In...
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film "The Mask", 1915 short story by Bernard Capes, featured in the 1989 book The Black Reaper The Mask, 1919 novel by John Cournos "The Mask", 1925 short...
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Black Mask Magazine, and turned it into a special department which "features harder-edged works of crime, noir, and private-eye writers." Black Mask ceased...
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of this period were Amazing Stories, Black Mask, Dime Detective, Flying Aces, Horror Stories, Love Story Magazine, Marvel Tales, Oriental Stories, Planet...
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H. L. Mencken (category Black Mask (magazine))
later revealed. In 1908, he became a literary critic for The Smart Set magazine, and in 1924 he and George Jean Nathan founded and edited The American...
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information about the magazine see Black Mask (magazine) The Casey franchise was started in 1934 by George Harmon Coxe in Black Mask (magazine). A total of 22...
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Balaclava (clothing) (redirect from Ski mask)
portal Anti-flash gear Anti-mask laws Facekini Keffiyeh (traditional Middle Eastern headwear) Knit cap Mask Neck gaiter "Ski mask" toque—Canadian English;...
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feared being typecast. Yet The Black Phone story resonated with the actor, and the idea of The Grabber being concealed by a mask further enticed him. Hawke's...
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Black Mask Studios is a comic book and graphic novel publishing company formed by Matt Pizzolo, Steve Niles and Brett Gurewitz, designed as a new infrastructure...
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Tiger Mask (Japanese: タイガーマスク, Hepburn: Taigā Masuku) is a Japanese manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Naoki Tsuji. The series was...
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"mesh", but perhaps from mask- "black", a borrowing from a pre-Indo-European language. One German author claims the word "mask" is originally derived from...
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Tuxedo Mask (タキシード仮面, Takishīdo Kamen), also known as Mamoru Chiba (地場 衛, Chiba Mamoru, renamed Darien Shields in some English adaptations), is a fictional...
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American "hard-boiled" detective fiction of the kind popularized by Black Mask magazine. Although British, Russell wrote predominantly for an American audience...
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Lady in the Lake (category American black-and-white films)
re-write the screenplay. (Chandler and Fisher had both been writers for Black Mask magazine in the 1930s.) Fisher made major changes, such as re-setting the...
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Son of the Mask is a 2005 superhero comedy film directed by Lawrence Guterman. A standalone sequel to The Mask (1994), it is the second and final installment...
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Saith the Lord (category Works originally published in Black Mask (magazine))
1996 World Fantasy Convention. The story originally appeared in the magazine Black Mask in 1940. Introduction, by D. H. Olson" "Saith the Lord" "A Night...
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