@paulryanoconnor.bsky.social
Crime-writing blogger & award-winning mystery author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place. https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories
“Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy?
Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that?
Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!”
-Dave Brubeck #BOTD
Dave Brubeck and Louis Armstrong by Jack Bradley
AVON S381/ 60c In a brooding Florentine villa Laura's dream vacation turned to a nightmare fantasy. Voice in the Dark Claire Lorrimer's chilling novel of romance and terror Against a spooky mint green background, a brunette in a white trench coat which wraps around her in a ghostly way (also serving as the white background for the black text title
1970 / Lou Marchetti
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Agnes Moorehead with her pet cat in the 1940s
Moorehead was BOTD in 1900
#Caturday
The Girl Who Invited Murder
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Covers, At Sea, Magazine, True Detective
Joan Didion in Alcatraz Prison - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
Some crimes are worse than murder.
Top Ten Film Noirs ... That Aren't About Crime, Part 2
#filmnoir
It's Friday! Have a great weekend.
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The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2025, featuring the 20 best PI stories of 2025 and an essay on the state of the genre by Kevin Burton Smith, is now available.
www.amazon.com/Best-Private...
Dominique Sanda
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Gemma Jones, Oliver Reed “THE DEVILS” dir. Ken Russell
🎬 Warner Bros.
It's a middling 70s crime drama, but every once in awhile and out of nowhere there's a shot that looks like a million bucks, and you remember this is Michael Cimino's directorial debut.
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A man with long straggly brown hair and beard is wearing a pale salmon colored robe, holding a white drink in a small glass as he gazes with a smug expression at someone. Jeff Bridges, born on this day in 1949, as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in a scene from the film THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) Tags Filmsky moviesky MOVIES films botd happy birthday Hollywood legends sexy actor star comedy Oscar award
Good morning.
#BOTD #filmsky #moviesky
Sergei Eisenstein by Eugene Robert Richee, 1931.
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It's Halloween all-year long at The Hourglass.
Top Ten Classic Monster Movies -- Part 1
#HorrorMovies #horror #monsters
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot movie poster. Clint and a big gun.
Watched:
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Godard, alone on a film set, leans against a wall & reads a script.
Remembering Jean-Luc Godard on his birthday 🎂
📷 Jean-Louis Swiners, 1963
"The films feel like they are not old, or old fashioned; they still feel fresh and touch people."
- Anna Karina
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Looks like a decent reason to go to Mars.
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Why my decade-old comic book blog pivoted to crime fiction.
Secret Origins
#TasteofFear
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Readers tend to accumulate books, whether they plan to or not; @jdnicoll.bsky.social offers some advice and approaches he wishes he'd considered before diving headlong into assembling a massive book collection 📚
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Breaking down descriptive text from a crime fiction master.
Ross Macdonald's Art of Description
#CrimeFiction #crimewriting #writingcommunity
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Dick Powell & Evelyn Keyes in the film noir Johnny O'Clock (1947) dir. Robert Rossen
Crapped out 🎲🎬
#Niorvember #filmnoir #filmsky #moviesky
Two of three panels showing the transformation of Fantomah from a beautiful woman to a blue woman with more skull like features in her face.
An unattached head flying through the air and shouting "have mercy."
Destructo’s head retreating back into his gigantic body as he screams for help.
Stardust is holding a man by one hand, squeezing his torso so tight there is no way he could be alive. Stardust is saying "I told you to get your gang together!"
Today is the birthday of writer & artist Fletcher Hanks (Dec. 1, 1889-Jan. 22, 1976). He was only active in the comic industry for three years but is remembered for his unique style & unusual creations such as Stardust the Super Wizard & Fantomah.
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The cure for the blues, as a writer, is to write. Show up. Do the work. Submit. Repeat.
#WritingCommunity #crimewriting
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
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A colour image of Sherlock Holmes (1891, Sidney Paget)
I know it's basic of me, but I kind of love Sherlock Holmes so we're doing this-
On this day in 1887, the first Sherlock Holmes story appeared in print. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet was included in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, generating very little public interest at the time.
