THE PREPOSTEROUS BOLLOX OF THE SITUATION

“Writers make great hay with these pieces of evidence. That’s why they like to use semi-automatic guns in crimes. Without them, solving the crime would be more difficult…”

What sets these texts apart, however, from standard crime fiction is that neither adheres to traditional investigative frameworks and are even almost totally devoid of investigative narrative, because they ‘stay within the mind of the killer’ in such a way that makes them ‘effectively disturbing’. To an extent, there is really no moral voice that balances out the serial killer’s viewpoint or mind in either American Psycho or The Killer Inside Me. At least, especially not in the same way that Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot might, because narrative is totally subjective for Patrick and Lou and restricted to the subjective and ‘disordered imagination.’

“More than any other actor, Mitchum created the pivotal figure of the lovesick antihero with tragic taste in women. Here is a guy destined to die for love. We find the core aspects of this persona in three films he made at RKO between 1947 and 1953…”

Superb article by Jake Hinkson on Mulholland Books.

Lovely feature on the writer’s workplace by Joe R. Lansdale hissownself. From Mulholland Books.