Edited by Timothy R. Granger and Michael W. Phillips Jr.

While there may have been few people of color writing for pulp magazines in their heyday of the 1920s through 1950s, that doesn’t mean there weren’t Black writers creating their own tales of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and horror. Instead of mainstream pulps, they published in Black newspapers that had circulations in the hundreds of thousands. These stories of daring rogues, alien encounters, and future technologies are as exciting as any of the “classic” adventure fiction that continues to be lauded today. With three distinctive anthologies of stories all reprinted for the first time, the Black Ink series is a step toward placing those Black speculative fiction writers into the conversation that has long excluded them.