[4] 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.

[6] In 2020, Mysterious Press became fully independent as part of Penzler Publishers, distributed by W. W. Norton & Company.

[7] Mysterious Press has also partnered with Open Road Integrated Media since 2011 for ebooks.

[8] In its earliest days, Mysterious Press published works by Cornell Woolrich, Ross Macdonald, and Isaac Asimov.

[5] It went on to publish Maxwell Grant, James Ellroy, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, Donald E. Westlake, Kingsley Amis, and Eric Ambler, among others.