Jeff,
Pardon me if, to answer your question, I re-post in part a
message I dropped on the Big Adios board a couple months
back.
I worked in a bookstore for much of the 1980s and got to
watch the original Black Lizard Books flourish and fade.
Cleaning up my office, I recently found a copy of the
Creative Arts Book Company's Spring 1989 catalog. This was
their last catalog to feature Black Lizard Books and lists
the planned spring releases that never came to pass. A fan to
the marrow, I also used Books in Print to ferret out
additional titles that Black Lizard had listed for the trade,
but hadn't formally announced. So here they are, the Black
Lizard Books that never were...
The Baby Doll Murders by James Causey Death on the White Time
by Jim Dawson Frenzy by James Causey Kiss Off the Dead by
David Gerrity No Good From a Corpse by Leigh Brackett They
Drive By Night by A.I. Bezzerides Thieves Market by A.I.
Bezzerides The Box by Peter Rabe Nothing in Her Way by
Charles Williams Death Takes the Bus by Lionel White
Agreement to Kill by Peter Rabe Its My Funeral by Peter Rabe
Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliot Chaze
Posts on Big Adios that followed mine gave several others
that were in the pipeline, but never even announced. The
titles above I vouch for personally but, for what it's worth,
I'll accept the ones below as well. James Reasoner himself
added his title.
MAN ON THE RUN by Charles Williams THE DOUBLE TAKE by Roy
Huggins DOCTOR SYNTAX by Michael Petracca Lost Echoes by Joe
Lansdale Texas Wind by James Reasoner
We really did lose a lot when Random House took over Black
Lizard.
John
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