black lizard books
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Black Lizard was a publisher. A
venture of the Creative Arts Book Company of Berkeley, California,
Lizard specialized in rediscovering forgotten classic crime fiction
writers and their work from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Founded by Donald Ellis and edited by writer Barry Gifford, Black
Lizard released over ninety books between 1984 and 1990, including
novels by Charles Willeford, David Goodis, Peter Rabe, Harry
Whittington, Dan J. Marlowe, Charles Williams, and Lionel White.
Lizard is single-handedly responsible for renewing the interest in
pulp master Jim Thompson in the late 1980s, long after his death,
which resulted in several film adaptations of his novels. The
original series were mass-market paperbacks with covers drawn by
Kirwan.
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Random House bought out Lizard in June 1990 and formed Vintage
Crime/Black Lizard. In came the novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond
Chandler, James M. Cain and numerous contemporary authors. Out went
all the less commercial authors, the same ones that made Lizard
unique in the first place. The mass-market paperbacks were replaced
by trade paperbacks with [black & white] photographs on the covers.
Most of the series was reprinted in this new format, but practically
all of the books published by Lizard before the merge, with the
notable exception of books by Jim Thompson, have been allowed to
fall out of print and have remained so since the early 1990s.