“Dancer Loses Her Head in Tapas Bar” by Jonathan Woods

SHORT FICTION/EROTICA: “Itztli loved life. He also feared the old gods. And the new…”

“A Star Who Knew How To Make an Entrance” by Dan Bronson

NOVEL EXCERPT: “A small price to pay for a sequence that packed them in at the box-office….”

“Out of the Shadows: Neil Jordan’s Marlowe” by Anees Aref

FILM REVIEW: “Kudos to Jordan, screenwriter William Monahan, Liam Neeson and company for bringing the private eye out of the shadows again.”

“Grim Fatale: Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s Fatale Compendium” by Brian Greene

GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: “Originally issued over 24 installments between 2012-14, the entire series is now conveniently collected between one set of covers in Image Comics’s new compendium edition.”

“Hollywood Seamy: Scott Phillips on The Devil Raises His Own” by William Blick

INTERVIEW: “I write for an imaginary reader who is exactly like me in taste and temperament. When I started doing that instead of writing for an imaginary marketplace, that’s when I started getting a little success.”

“The Itch of Iron, The Pull of the Moon” by Carol Borden

FICTION: “She watched the lot for the owners and was as trustworthy about it as could be expected. They thought she was a transient, but had no complaints.”

Excerpt: “So Curse the Day” by Jada M. Davis

NOVEL EXCERPT: “Long ago and dim distant there’d been a place like this, a quiet sun-warmed place like this… That was before they took my mother away and before my father locked me in the house and went away forever….”

Preview: “Three from Il Cinema Ritrovato 2024” by Theresa Rodewald

FILM FESTIVAL REPORT: Theresa Rodewald reports on noir programming at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2024….

“No-Nonsense Noir: Death Comes Too Late” by Brian Greene

BOOK REVIEW: “This collection features the kind of spare, no-nonsense stuff you’d expect from a noir aficionado like Charles Ardai, the co-founder and editor of Hard Case Crime….”