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Otto Penzler owns the Mysterious Bookshop in New York & founded the Mysterious Press & Otto Penzler Books. He has written & edited several books, including the Edgar-winning "Encyclopedia of Mystery & Detection". (Bowker Author Biography)
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Works by Otto Penzler

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (2007) — Editor — 531 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000) — Series Editor — 452 copies
The Best American Noir of the Century (2010) — Editor — 357 copies
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (2013) — Editor — 289 copies
Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop (2010) — Editor — 240 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003) — Series Editor — 204 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 (2011) — Series Editor — 189 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (2005) — Series Editor — 188 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 (2007) — Series Editor — 184 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 (1998) — Series Editor — 177 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 (2008) — Series Editor — 167 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 (2002) — Series Editor — 158 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999) — Series Editor — 156 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 (2010) — Series Editor — 153 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 (2006) — Series Editor — 152 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 (2001) — Series Editor — 144 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2000 (2000) — Series Editor — 140 copies
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (2015) — Editor — 137 copies
Detectionary (1971) — Editor — 134 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 (2004) — Series Editor — 133 copies
Dangerous Women (1998) — Editor — 132 copies
The Big Book of Ghost Stories (2012) — Editor — 129 copies
Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection (1976) — Editor — 127 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 (2012) — Series Editor — 124 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (1997) — Series editor — 117 copies
The Best American Crime Writing 2005 (2005) — Series Editor — 113 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (2009) — Series Editor — 112 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 (2015) — Series Editor — 103 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2018 (2018) — Series editor — 97 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 (2013) — Series Editor — 97 copies
Murder for Love (1996) — Editor — 91 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 (2014) — Series Editor — 91 copies
Agents of Treachery (2010) — Editor — 90 copies
The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018) — Editor — 79 copies
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (2011) — Editor — 73 copies
Murder for Revenge (1998) — Editor — 70 copies
The Big Book of Rogues and Villains (2017) — Editor — 63 copies
The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021 (2021) — Editor — 61 copies
Pulp Fiction: The Villains (2007) 61 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 (2020) — Editor — 60 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (2017) — Series Editor — 59 copies
The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 (2011) — Editor — 58 copies
The Great Detectives (1978) 56 copies
Murder and Obsession: 15 New Original Stories (1999) — Editor — 55 copies
Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table (2007) — Editor — 52 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century (2014) — Editor & Introduction — 49 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 (2019) — Series editor — 48 copies
The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2022 (2022) — Series Editor — 40 copies
Murderers' Row (2001) — Editor — 37 copies
The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries (2021) — Editor — 37 copies
Pulp Fiction: The Dames (2008) 34 copies
Kwik Krimes (2013) 29 copies
Murder at the Foul Line (1911) — Editor; Introduction — 29 copies
The Big Book of Espionage (2020) 27 copies
Bibliomysteries: Short Tales About Deadly Books (2013) — Editor — 25 copies
The Locked-Room Mysteries (2014) — Editor — 24 copies
Murder in the Rough (2006) 23 copies
Golden Age Bibliomysteries (2023) — Editor — 23 copies
Sherlock (2015) 20 copies
Hunting the killer shark (1976) 19 copies
Mysterious Obsessions (2019) 13 copies
Danger! White Water (1976) 7 copies
Prize Meets Murder (1984) 7 copies
Criminal Records (2000) — Editor — 6 copies
Daredevils on Wheels (1976) 5 copies
Millennium thriller (2011) 5 copies
The Cask 5 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 15, Number 2 (1982) — Editor — 4 copies
Driving Lessons (1998) 4 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 18, Number 2 (1985) — Editor — 4 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 [Audio Book, abridged] (2002) — Narrator; Series Editor — 3 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 18, Number 4 (1985) — Editor — 3 copies
Moord uit het boekje (2013) — Editor — 3 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 21, Number 2 (1988) — Editor — 3 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 21, Number 3 (1988) — Editor — 3 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 18, Number 3 (1985) — Editor — 3 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 17, Number 4 (1984) — Editor — 3 copies
The Poster Boy (1998) 3 copies
Demolition Derby (1975) 3 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 19, Number 4 (1986) — Editor — 2 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 18, Number 1 (1985) — Editor — 2 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 19, Number 3 (1986) — Editor — 2 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 21, Number 1 (1988) — Editor — 2 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 19, Number 1 (1986) — Editor — 2 copies
No Name 2 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 15, Number 1 (1982) — Editor — 2 copies
The Armchair Detective: Volume 20, Number 2 (1987) — Editor — 2 copies
813 2 copies
Přehlídka (2011) 1 copy
Golden Age Whodunits (2024) 1 copy
Bibliomysteries Volume 2 (2021) — Editor — 1 copy

Associated Works

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) — Introduction, some editions — 15,210 copies
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1903) — Introduction, some editions — 8,711 copies
The Sign of Four (1890) — Introduction, some editions — 5,013 copies
A Kiss before Dying (1953) — Introduction, some editions — 1,281 copies
The Circular Staircase (1908) — Introduction, some editions — 958 copies
The Floating Admiral (1931) — Editor, some editions — 799 copies
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1898) — Introduction, some editions — 754 copies
Fiddlers (2005) — some editions — 451 copies
Green for Danger (1944) — Introduction, some editions — 437 copies
The Man in Lower Ten (1906) — Introduction, some editions — 382 copies
The Wrong Box (1889) — Introduction, some editions — 366 copies
The Siamese Twin Mystery (1933) — Introduction, some editions — 352 copies
The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1907) — Introduction, some editions — 281 copies
The Bishop Murder Case (1928) — Editor, some editions — 275 copies
The Plague Court Murders (1934) — Introduction, some editions — 233 copies
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (1940) — Introduction, some editions — 210 copies
The So Blue Marble (1940) — Introduction, some editions — 137 copies
The Mighty Johns (2002) — Editor, some editions — 93 copies
The Singing Bone (1912) — Introduction, some editions — 87 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 (2016) — Series editor — 80 copies
The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 (2009) — Series editor — 75 copies
A Miscellany for bibliophiles (1979) — Contributor — 25 copies
Collectibles (2021) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Rex Stout Reader: Her Forbidden Knight and A Prize for Princes (2007) — Introduction, some editions — 14 copies
The Mystery Mind (2015) — Introduction, some editions — 14 copies
Inward Journey (1987) — Contributor — 11 copies
A Tale About a Tiger [short story] (1998) — Editor — 7 copies

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The collection begins with W.B. Seabrook’s “Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields”, the first account of zombies ever written and purported to be “entirely true”! And the fun doesn't stop there! Three of my all-time favorite authors are in this collection - Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, and Edgar Allan Poe! Other authors within that I've enjoyed reading in the past include H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Robert Matheson, and Michael Marshall Smith. Truly, an all-star line-up!
The only one in here that I thought was a stinker was also the longest - "Z is for Zombie" by Theodore Roscoe. If you grow tired after 600 pages or so, I suggest skipping this last entry!

But BEWARE! “Eat Me” by Robert McCammon is nasty! Like it churned my stomach nasty! Eww…

Some zombie factoids I learned in these pages - they can come from the West Indies. Haiti. Africa. Lots of the time they are simply used as cheap labor! No salt rule (don't feed zombies anything with salt!). No meat rule.

A definition of a zombie appears in “Pigeons From Hell” by Robert E. Howard - “It’s a monster, something more and less than a human being, created by the magic that spawns in black swamps and jungles - well we’ll see.”

“When you sup with the devil, be sure you have a long spoon.”

“Greed inspires horrible things my dear…”
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Stahl-Ricco | Mar 10, 2024 |
Hard to decide how many stars as this is a collection of stories. There are enough different styles to appeal to any mystery lover. I particularly enjoyed the humor in the Rupert Holmes, the efficiency of the Ed McBain and the devious Deaver.the mentions of favorites like Collins, Poe and Doyle was welcome, as was the chance to check out some of the authors I didn’t recognize.
 
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cspiwak | 18 other reviews | Mar 6, 2024 |
Great eclectic and marvelously mixed bag of stories, most to all of which were excellent reads no matter their originating genre or sub-genre. I'm going to have to get a copy of this to keep, as I already want to reread some stories despite having returned this book to the library.
 
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SESchend | 9 other reviews | Feb 2, 2024 |
An uneven mix but worth the price of the book for "The Caxton Lending Library & Book Depository"by John Connolly.
 
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dhenn31 | 8 other reviews | Jan 24, 2024 |

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