Mysterious Press
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| name = Mysterious Press
| image = Mysterious_Press_logo.jpeg
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| parent = Penzler Publishers (print)
Open Road Integrated Media (ebook)
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| founded = 1975
| founder = Otto Penzler
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| country = United States
| headquarters =New York City
| distribution =W.W. Norton
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| publications = Books
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| genre = mystery
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| website = {{URL|https://penzlerpublishers.com/product-category/mysterious-press/}}
}}{{Short description|American publishing company specializing in mystery fiction}}
The Mysterious Press is an American publishing company specializing in mystery fiction based in New York City.{{Cite web|title=About Mysterious Press - Mysterious Press|url=http://mysteriouspress.com/about-us/|access-date=2021-05-28|website=mysteriouspress.com}} The company has been associated with various publishing companies, most recently with Grove Atlantic, where it was an imprint from 2011 to 2019.{{Cite web|title=Grove Atlantic|url=https://groveatlantic.com/books/imprint/the-mysterious-press/|access-date=2021-05-28|language=en}} As of January 1, 2020, it became an independent imprint as part of Penzler Publishers.{{Cite web|last=Deedy|first=Carmen Agra|title=Shelf Awareness for Wednesday, February 5, 2020|url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3669|access-date=2021-05-28|website=www.shelf-awareness.com}} The offices of the Mysterious Press are located within The Mysterious Bookshop.{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=https://www.mysteriousbookshop.com/pages/about-us|access-date=2021-05-28|website=The Mysterious Bookshop|language=en}}
History
Mysterious Press was founded in 1975 by Otto Penzler, and was one of the first genre publishers to use materials such as acid-free paper, full-cloth bindings, and full-color dust jackets.{{cite web|title=The Mysterious Press|url=http://www.groveatlantic.com/#page=infomysterious|publisher=Grove/Atlantic inc|accessdate=18 August 2012}} Many of the books it published were done in both trade and limited editions. In 1989, the company was sold to Warner Books, which was bought by Hachette in 2005. Penzler re-acquired the Mysterious Press name in 2011 and it became an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, Inc., though without publication rights to any of the previous imprint's back titles.{{cite news|last=Weinman|first=Sarah|title=Bringing Back The Mysterious Press|url=http://www.sarahweinman.com/confessions/2010/11/bringing-back-the-mysterious-press.html|accessdate=14 January 2016}} In 2020, Mysterious Press became fully independent as part of Penzler Publishers, distributed by W. W. Norton & Company.{{Cite web|title=Distribution Partners|url=https://wwnorton.com/who-we-are/distribution-partners|access-date=2021-05-28|website=wwnorton.com|language=en}} Mysterious Press has also partnered with Open Road Integrated Media since 2011 for ebooks.{{Cite web| last = Dilworth| first = Dianna| title = Open Road Partners With Mysterious Press For Digital Crime Books| accessdate = 2017-11-01| date = 2011-06-07| url = http://www.adweek.com/digital/open-road-partners-with-mysterious-press-for-digital-crime-books/}}
In its earliest days, Mysterious Press published works by Cornell Woolrich, Ross Macdonald, and Isaac Asimov. It went on to publish Maxwell Grant, James Ellroy, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, Donald E. Westlake, Kingsley Amis, and Eric Ambler, among others.{{cite web|url=https://library.osu.edu/finding-aids/rarebooks/MysteriousPress.php|title=Finding Aid: The Mysterious Press Archive - Rare Books and Manuscripts, The Ohio State University Libraries|website=library.osu.edu|accessdate=3 May 2017}}
References
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External links
- [http://mysteriouspress.com/ Mysteriouspress.com]
- [https://library.osu.edu/finding-aids/rarebooks/MysteriousPress.php Archives and Publications of Mysterious Press] The Ohio State University Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection
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Category:Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
Category:Publishing companies established in 1975