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Steve Fisher (1912-1980) was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. Before his death, he wrote scripts for the shows Fantasy Island, Starsky and Hutch, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Isher grew up around Los Angeles where his mother, an actress, enrolled him in Oneonta Military Academy. He was a teen when he sold his first tale to a magazine. Teve Fisher was so good at presenting love, and other more complex emotional, human relations in pulp formula plots like spy, detective, and romance tales that his pulp producing peers called him "Somerset Maugham at a penny a word.".

Steve Fisher (1912-1980) was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. Before his death, he wrote scripts for the shows Fantasy Island, Starsky and Hutch, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Fisher grew up around Los Angeles where his mother, an actress, enrolled him in Oneonta Military Academy. He was a teen when he sold his first tale to a magazine.

Steve Fisher (1912-1980) was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. Fisher grew up around Los Angeles where his mother, an actress, enrolled him in Oneonta Military Academy. Before his death, he wrote scripts for the shows Fantasy Island, Starsky and Hutch, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He was a teen when he sold his first tale to a magazine.

I Wake Up Screaming is a classic Hollywood noir about obsession and murder Steve Fisher was an insider to a lot of Hollywood corruption and used his extensive knowledge to create this thrilling and suspenseful Hollywood crime novel This is the first hardcover edition of the novel since 1941 (the original hardcover sells for $4,000!).

Our edition conforms to the revised 1960 edition of the book, and includes a fine introduction, several covers from Black Mask magazine, ten short stories by Fisher from Black Mask and other pulps, most never before collected in book form; a rare essay on pulp fiction by Fisher, never before published in book form; a rare photograph of Fisher, and a memoir by Fisher about Humphrey Bogart, never before published anywhere This is a handsome hardcover, 250 copies, 6 × 9 inches, bound in cloth.

Edition Details

• Limited to 200 copies.
• Introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch.
• Several reprints of Black Mask covers, all in full color.
• A rare photograph of Steve Fisher.
• A brilliant memoir by Fisher about Humphrey Bogart.
• An essay by Fisher, here printed for the first time ever.
• A dozen extra stories and essays, many of which have never been reprinted in book form.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

External Links

• I Wake Up Screaming. Centipede Press page for I Wake Up Screaming
• Steve Fisher (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Steve Fisher