Steve Fisher (writer)
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Stephen Gould Fisher was an American author best known for his pulp stories, novels and screenplays. He is one of the few pulp authors to go on to enjoy success as both an author in "slick" magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post, and as an in-demand writer in Hollywood.
Fisher's "Mistress Death" was the cover story on the May–June 1936 issue of New Mystery Adventures
Black Mask (magazine)
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Black Mask was a pulp magazine first published in April 1920 by the journalist H. L. Mencken and the drama critic George Jean Nathan. It is most well-known today for launching the hardboiled crime subgenre of mystery fiction, publishing now-classic works by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Cornell Woolrich, Paul Cain, Carroll John Daly, and others.
November 1928 cover of Black Mask, featuring part 1 of serialization of The Dain Curse, by Dashiell Hammett
June 1923, featuring Carroll John Daly's anti-Ku Klux Klan story "Knights of the Open Palm"
October 1923
November 1923