Tag Archives: noir

Glen Cook’s Chronicles of the Black Company (The Black Company, Shadows Linger, The White Rose)

Posted on 27th December 2017 by Robert

We all have our personal lists, individual counterparts to those periodic lists of “most important,” “best,” or whatever the accolade of the moment might be. I have a personal list of “best fantasy series” that includes some works that might … Continue reading →

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Michael Moorcock’s Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné

Posted on 14th May 2017 by Robert

Volume 1: The Stealer of Souls Volume 2: To Rescue Tanelorn Volume 3: The Sleeping Sorceress Volume 4: Duke Elric “Michael Moorcock.” Say that name three times at the dark of the moon and you will undoubtedly summon the spirit … Continue reading →

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Michael Moorcock’s The Metatemporal Detective

Posted on 14th May 2017 by Robert

The Metatemporal Detective is a collection of stories chronicling the various encounters between investigator Sir Seaton Begg and his arch-rival and distant cousin, a master criminal known as “Monsieur Zenith,” in various realms of the multiverse. The realms all occupy … Continue reading →

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Ray Bradbury’s Death Is a Lonely Business

Posted on 6th November 2016 by Cat Eldridge

Craig Clarke penned this review. In 1985, over twenty years since the publication of his last full-length work, 1962’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury reentered the novel-writing world with the release of Death is a Lonely Business, his foray into a … Continue reading →

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Simon R. Green’’s Something from The Nightside audiobook

Posted on 25th September 2016 by Cat Eldridge

Private eyes come in all shapes and sizes, and none of them look like television stars. Some do insurance work, some hang around cheap hotels with camcorders hoping to get evidence for divorce cases, and damn few ever get to … Continue reading →

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Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso: 100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call

Posted on 7th January 2016 by Robert

If any comic published in the last couple of decades typifies the intrusion of a “noir” sensibility into the field, it’s 100 Bullets. Vertigo/DC collected the single-issue numbers 1-5 and the Vertigo/Winter’s Edge #3 into this volume, which starts the … Continue reading →

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Brian Azzarello & Victor Santos’s Filthy Rich

Posted on 16th June 2009 by Richard Dansky

Pity the protagonist of noir fiction. Because he dwells in that world of dangerous dames, brawny gangsters and flashy period cars — not to mention impressive and stylish men’s hats — he does not have the opportunity to read noir, … Continue reading →

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