Consulted Bibliography
Gaming Materials
- Aniolowski, Hall, Hatherley, Smithee, Snyder, Tynes - The Golden
Down - Pagan Publishing, 1996
- John H. Crowe III - Coming Full Circle - Pagan Publishing, 1995
- Greg Farshtey -The World of Bloodshadows - West End Games, 1994
- Keith Herber et al. - The 1920s Investigators Companion - Chaosium, 1997
- David Ladyman et al. - Chill - Mayfair Games, sd
- Steve Perrin & Lynn Willis - Basic Role Playing, in Casus Belli
Hors-series n.19, July 97
- Steve Perrin, Greg Stafford, Steve Henderson, Lynn Willis - RuneQuest
De Luxe - Avalon Hill Game Company, 1986
- Brian Sean Perry et al. - The World of Indiana Jones - West End Games,
1994
- Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis et al. - Call of Cthulhu Horror Roleplaying,
Edition 5.5 - Chaosium, 1998
- Lester W. Smith - Dark Conspiracy - GDW, 1991
Other Resources
- Phil Hardy - The BFI' s Companion to Crime - BFI, 1998
- Roz Kaveney - SF-Noir - in Odissey Magazine, n.0, September 1997
- Elizabeth Ward and Alain Silver - Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles - The
Overlook Press, 1987
Suggested Readings
The works of Howard Phillips
Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler
(stay clear of Playback) and Dashiell Hammett are to be considered foundamental
as a source of background
material. And if you can find some David Goodis, grab it and read it.
To the above, we strongly suggest you add a sprinkling of
the following:
Hugh B. Cave - Death Stalks the Night - Fedogan &
Bremer,
1995
Mike Chinn - The Paladin Mandates - The Alchemy Press,
1998
Fritz Leiber - Conjure Wife - 1943
Fritz Leiber - You Are All Alone - Carrol & Graf, 1992
Jonathan Lethem - Gun with Occasional Music - NEL, 1995
Kim Newman - The Night Mayor - Carrol & Graf, 1992
Kim Newman - The Big Fish - in "Famous Monsters" - Pocket
Books,
1995
Kim Newman - Quarter to Three - "Famous Monsters" - Pocket
Books, 1995
Movies to See
They are an awful lot. A generic
list might include...
Noir
- The Maltese Falcon (the one with Bogart)
- Double Indemnity
(McMurray/Stanwick frauding the insurance company)
- The Postman Always Rings
Twice (the old one, with Lana Turner)
- The Big Sleep (Bogart again; learn
his lines by heart)
- Gunmen (Burt Lancaster)
- Sunset Boulevard (it's
narrated by a dead man!)
- Dark Passage (Bogart, Bacall, plastic surgery)
- Kiss me Deadly (stolen artefact, espionage, double crosses)
- High Sierra (yes,
there's Bogart in it. Any problem?)
- Night and the City (Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, urban alienation at
its best)
Noir in Colour
- Chinatown (Jack Nicholson directed by Polansky)
- The Two Jackes (Nicholson directs himself in the sequel)
- Hammett (biopic of the creator of the genre)
- Mulholland Falls (blackmail, secrets, intrigue)
- L.A. Confidential (classy, bitter)
Supernatural Noir
- Cast a Deadly Spell (Fred Ward as H.P.Lovecraft, P.I.)
- Witch Hunt (Dennis Hopper as H.P. Lovecraft, P.I.)
- Night of the Eagle (from Leiber's "Conjure Wife")
- The Haunting (probably the best horror movie ever)
- Little Shop of Horrors (both versions - humorous but nasty)
Retro Urban Settings
- The Mask
- The Rocketeer
- Dark City
- The Shadow
Humorous Noir
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (all the cliches are in here)
On-Line Resouces
The Window - the game system
of choiche for playing niteside dreams as a stand-alone role playing game.
Check it out.
The American Movie Classics page about
Noir
is a must-see and a first class inspiration source - a web site that actually
conveys
the feeling
of the thing and not only the informations. Beautiful.
The Stuff That
Dreams Are Made Of/A Tribute to the Maltese Falcon - a complete and
attractive resource about the classic hard-boiled mistery. Lots of pictures
and data, wide variety of useful links.
