
cover art by Lyman Anderson

adaptation by Orson Welles of Sherwood King’s novel If I Die Before I Wake
starring Rita Hayworth, Orson Wells, and Everett Sloane

1946 Chartered digest paperback original
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1950 Avon paperback original, 1st printing, seven stories originally published in Black Mask Magazine
“Black” (May 1932)
“Red 71” (December 1932)
“Parlor Trick” (July 1932)
“One, Two, Three” (May 1933)
“Murder in Blue” (June 1933) – “Murder Done in Blue” in the original magazine
“Pigeon Blood” (November 1933)
“Pineapple” (March 1936)


1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin

1987 Blood & Guts hardcover reissue
cover art by Joe Servello


February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
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cover art by Peter Stevens
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~ Fredric Brown, “Cry Silence” – his only appearance in BM, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010)
~ Curtis Cluff, “Overdose of Lead”, NYC PI Chuck Conrad, last of 4 stories in BM
~ Mel Colton, “Dead Men Can’t Welsh”, ‘Jimmy Rock, p.i.’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “The Bloody Bokhara”, ‘the carpet business!’, 8th of 9 stories in BM
~ Don M. Mankiewicz, “Odd on Death”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Tom Marvin, “Harm’s Way”, last of 3 stories in BM
~ Coleman Meyer, “Gun in His Back”, ‘cop story’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop


Shock SuspenStories #14 (EC, 1954) Wally Wood cover and art