Otto Penzler

...when I don't have to speak to people." "She was a mean, hard, cruel, unlovable, unloving person," said acquaintance Otto Penzler. "I could never penetrate how any human being could be that relentlessly ugly." Other friends and...

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Home Books Book Review: The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published Edited by Otto Penzler "A sinister cabal of superior writers." Book Review: The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire...

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...be good or bad. The best way to understand this huge cultural shift is to read some of the classic vampire tales in editor Otto Penzler's gargantuan, 1,034-page anthology, "The Vampire Archives" (Vintage Crime, $25). The superb collection...

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...undead don't chow down on Big Macs. In "The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published," editor Otto Penzler assembles 80-plus stories that offer a survey of the genre from the early 1800s to the present day.

In this article: Dracula, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, Carmilla, and Popsy

...money." - Bob Minzesheimer The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 Guest editor Jeffery Deaver, series editor Otto Penzler Otto Penzler defines these stories as "any work of fiction in which a crime, or the threat of a crime, is central...

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...(17 years). The Best American Mystery Stories. Annual series since 1997, with guest editors. Writer Robert B. Parker wrote "Otto Penzler knows more about crime fiction than most people know about anything, and proves it once more in...

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...writing by Chester Himes, Edward P. Jones, Gary Phillips, Paula Woods and Walter Mosely, and is edited by Otto Penzler. Details after the jump. Penzler is a master editor of crime fiction, and he finds African American authors who were...

In this article: Walter Mosley, Dog, Chester Himes, L.A., Hollywood, and Oscars

...the policy didn't apply to education and children's books and a mystery book imprint, headed by Otto Penzler, who says that Saletan called him Monday to say she was leaving. </p><p>"She talked about being in a very difficult position,"...

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...covers almost inevitably contained "a beautiful young woman looking menaced, waiting for a man to come save her," says Otto Penzler, editor of The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps. Courtesy Vintage Books An excerpt from Charles G....

In this article: NPR, Vintage Books, Pulp Fiction, World War I, Pulp magazine, and Henry James

...back. Should you take that chance, there s guilty fun to be had in the snarling prose and vintage illustrations of what the editor, Otto Penzler, promises are the best crime stories from the golden age of the 20s, 30s and 40s. Most were culled...

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