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In the article, the author discusses terminal naturalism and the depiction of Victorian noir in literature by analyzing the novel "Waltz into Darkness" by American pulp writer Cornell Woolrich. Also cited are a comparison of the novel with Woolrich's other works like "The Bride Wore Black" and "I Married a Dead Man," and the novels' topics like human desires, murder, and cosmic determinism.

The article presents a literary criticism of the books "Ride the Pink Horse" and "The Expendable Man," by Dorothy B. Hughes. The author explores these works within the literary genre of noir American crime fiction, discusses their critique of cultural charms in American society, and examines the traditional masculinity within such fiction.

The article presents a literary criticism of the noir crime fiction novels "The Killer Inside Me," "Savage Night," and "A Hell of a Woman," all by Jim Thompson. The author explores how each work presents entropic disintegration, examines their fostering of a postwar paranoia of otherness, and discusses the relation to the onslaught of serial killers of the 1970s.

This paper considers how literary and cinematic constructions of Essex noir expose the darker, chaotic sides to working-class embourgeoisement: initially via post-War suburbanisation and later, via Margaret Thatcher's attempt to encourage competitive individualism and entrepreneurship. Noir angles a 'dark mirror' to suburban Essex and develops a distinctive aesthetics of social and cultural change, while also puncturing myths of social mobility and suburban security. The paper points to both affinities and breaks between noir's bleak pessimism and Walter Benjamin's understanding of history as overcoming the concept of progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article talks about noir thriller literary genre in the decade of the 1930s, focusing on British noir. Topics discussed include a comparison of British noir with its American counterpart, the author's exploring sexual discontent that was present in British life of the time through their works, and a mention of authors Graham Greene and Patrick Hamilton and their British noir thrillers.

This article explores the noir tradition in the crime fiction of British author W.W. Jacobs. Jacobs is recognized as the author of The Monkey's Paw, a popular horror story, but during his lifetime he was regarded as a master of the humorous short story. Though the majority of his short stories and novels were written as humor, he did also publish some 20 macabre tales. Several of these tales, such as The Monkey's Paw, are horror stories, while others, including Sam's Ghost and The Vigil, highlight a blend of both horror and humor. The novel, In the Library, reveals yet a third dimension of Jacobs' macabre writings. In its use of setting, character and plotting, this tale in many ways reads like noir. A number of Jacobs' short stories, in fact, parallel the type of crime fiction popularized by American pulp magazine author, Cornell Woolrich. A terrible sense of imprisonment is also a major theme of Jacobs' noir tale, The Interruption.