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Post by benedictjjones on Jul 24, 2012 12:49:41 GMT 1
Best novels, novellas, shorts and films please.
Obviously I've read the Parker books with their beautifully grotesque undercurrents, Falling Angel (and the film version Angel Heart) is excellent, Kings 'Thinner' can be sort of classed in this and Kill List astounded me. But what else!?
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Post by stu on Aug 26, 2012 9:03:31 GMT 1
James Lee Burke (a major influence on John Connolly) uses supernatural elements in some of his Dave Robicheaux novels. Black Cherry Blues and In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead spring to mind. From what I hear his Billy Bob Holland series also uses supernatural elements but I've not read any of them yet.
Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips is a Lovecraftian noir comic.
Hitman by Garth Ennis and John Mcrea is set in the same universe as Superman and Batman but features horror elements in amongst the John Woo shoot-outs and irreverent humour.
From Dusk Till Dawn. I didn't even need to mention this, did I?
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Post by benedictjjones on Aug 26, 2012 11:28:12 GMT 1
cheers - i think the robicheaux films had put me off reading the books but might have to give them a go now.
actually been reading a lot of comics/graphic novels that fall into this 'sub genre'.
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Post by stu on Aug 26, 2012 12:24:46 GMT 1
Any crime-horror comics you would recommend?
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Post by benedictjjones on Aug 26, 2012 12:52:59 GMT 1
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Post by stu on Aug 26, 2012 13:40:49 GMT 1
Cheers. I'll keep an eye out.
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Post by benedictjjones on Aug 28, 2012 19:36:06 GMT 1
just thought of another one - "London's Dark" set during the blitz and features mediums, murder and some really good art work
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Post by stu on Sept 6, 2012 15:48:15 GMT 1
The James Robinson one? I've read that but I don't think I own a copy.
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Post by benedictjjones on Sept 6, 2012 22:11:36 GMT 1
yeah written by James Robinson with art from Paul Johnson, picked it up for about £3 in discount book warehouse. really liked it, reminded me a lot of the early 200ad stuff - and given it was originally published in '89 that's probably why!
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