Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher of The Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Award for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and the Ellery Queen Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. He is the series editor of The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year. His other anthologies include Murder for Love, Murder for Revenge, Murder and Obsession, The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. He wrote 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery & Suspense. He lives in New York City.

 
   Edited by Otto Penzler
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Espionage | 978-0-307-47751-4 (0-307-47751-7) | June 2010 | $ 15.95

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   Preface by Neil Gaiman
Edited by Otto Penzler
Foreword by Kim Newman

Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Occult | 978-0-307-47389-9 (0-307-47389-9) | September 2009 | $ 25.00

The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.

Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the... Read More
 
   Edited by Otto Penzler
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-307-28048-0 (0-307-28048-9) | November 2007 | $ 25.00

The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled.

Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and... Read More
 
   Edited by Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook
Trade Paperback | Vintage | True Crime | 978-0-375-71301-9 (0-375-71301-8) | August 2003 | $ 15.00

This year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation containing the best examples of the most current and vibrant of our literary traditions: crime... Read More
 
  
 

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