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That’s a Honey of an Anklet: Women, Noir, and the Art of Writing Dark

I was fourteen when I fell in love with noir—on screen and on the page—and I never recovered. I pictured myself as Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe as I haunted the streets of my neighb...

Charles Ardai on Noir, Comics, and the Ongoing Adventures of Hard Case Crime

Charles Ardai is the editor and publisher behind Hard Case Crime, which since 2004 has published new books and reprinted old books by legendary writers and newcomers and forgotten...

How “In a Lonely Place” Changed Noir’s Direction

A look at how feminine intuition shaped the noir genre through Dorothy B. Hughe's 1947 novel and Nicholas Ray's beloved film adaptation.

James Sallis: What a Crime Fiction Master Leaves Behind

When the author James Sallis died in January, the first few paragraphs of his obituaries inevitably mentioned “Drive,” the 2011 film based on one of his novellas.  Directed by Nico...

The Backlist: Reading Kem Nunn’s Seminal ‘Surf Noir’ with Jordan Harper

Every reader of this genre knows that there’s no noir like California noir. Southern California is the exemplary place where beauty and death sit side by side, and it’s produced a...

Daniel Sackheim Traverses Los Angeles’ Noir Side in ‘The City Unseen’

The forthcoming book from Hat & Beard Press leans into the dualities of Los Angeles. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support...

TOO DEEP TO CROSS

A deadly showdown at an Asian market ends with veteran Anchorage, Alaska homicide detective DeHavilland Beans’ first fatal shooting—of a police informant, no less. Luckily, an unex...

Thief, Dishonored and Philip Marlowe combine in Noirmancer, a stealth sim that lets you wipe minds with a snap of your f...

Oh heck, colleagues, we got one: a promising videogame. Noirmancer is a first-person single-player stealth sim, heavily inspired by the original Thief, in which you are a hard-boil...

Dark City: Studying the Human Soul With Dark-Adapted Eyes

Director Alex Proyas' love letter to film noir and sci fi is one of the weirdest, most brilliant films of the '90s. The post <i>Dark City</i>: Studying the Human Soul W...

5 Obsession-Driven Noir Films Adapted from Novels

When I first heard Sting’s lyrics to “Every Breath You Take,” the song’s chilling, threatening tone made me genuinely uneasy. Was someone watching me? Should I be looking over my s...

How ‘At Close Range’ Set the Tone for Rural Crime Storytelling

Rural noir – crime stories set in small American towns, nestled among cornfields and along winding riverbanks – has long been a hugely popular and influential subset of crime movie...

Preview: ANONYMOUS JANE throws noir into colorful light

Crime Classics, Back in Print: A Roundup of Reissues

Here are 5 of the best novels to be reissued this spring, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. Len Deighton, Close-Up (Atlantic Crime) “Few authors writing in the rigorous and fi...

Nicolas Cage and Spider-Noir Team Talk Hard-Boiled Inspirations for Spider-Man Series

Spider-Noir is a strange mix of the familiar and the strange. On one hand, you have a web-spinner doing battle against classic villains like Sandman and Tombstone. On the other, th...

Neon, Rain, and Steel: The Birth of the Neo-Noir Heist in ‘Thief’

What’s common among filmmakers, like Orson Welles, François Truffaut, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Sam Mendes, and Greta Gerwig?These are the filmmakers who walked onto the set...

‘Noir, Japan’s Hard-Boiled Bittersweet Answer to Oreos’

Jake Adelstein (author of Tokyo Vice) on his blog Tokyo Paladin: For decades, Japan’s Oreos weren’t made by Nabisco at all. They were produced domestically by Yamazaki Biscuits...

“Profit is the Only Principle”: How ‘Point Blank’ Presaged Our Current Moment

They say the key to comedy is timing, and I suppose the morbidly funny is no exception.  I recently enjoyed a rewatch of the 1967 abstract modernist neo-noir crime classic Point Bl...

Hard Boiled Review (Arrow)

Even if you haven’t seen Hard Boiled, you’ve almost certainly seen the promotional image of... The post Hard Boiled Review (Arrow) appeared first on .

Nordic noir meets Japanese occult in ‘Blood and Sweat’

The Finnish-Japanese coproduction evolves from a classic detective drama into a fun, pulpy thriller, blending Japan's folklore with sharp plotting.

Horror Beat: NEO PULPS! Promises Horror And Thrills With A Puerto Rican Bite

Bungakukai June 2026 Issue Features Yasutaka Tsutsui’s First Hard-Boiled Mystery

Sorry, this entry is only available in Japanese. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown belo […]

THE LOWLIFE

A lifelong East Ender who fought in gangs as a boy and whose mother was killed when a German bomb dropped on their house, 45-year-old Harryboy Boas resides in a small room in a scr...

Spider-Noir: 5 Classic Film Noirs That Shaped the Spider-Man Adventure

For a show about a guy whose radioactive blood allows him to shoot webs and crawl walls, Spider-Noir has surprisingly little to do with the superhero that inspired it. Not only doe...

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