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Crime-writing blogger and award-winning mystery author. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place. https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories
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What did Raymond Chandler have against cats? #crimefiction #mystery

Diana Dors with her Delahaye 175 S Roadster (1949)

Wayne Shorter, Children of the Night youtu.be/rC-QJu88e5I?si #YouTube

Remembering the late, great George Perez on his birthday. Gone too soon but what a legacy he left behind ❤️❤️❤️

There’s a riot going on - and Sly’s going to be sadly missed.

Publishing has some confusing terms. Not sure what "crossover," "high concept," "upmarket" or other words mean? I made a glossary! #Writing #Publishing #Querying https://www.aealexander.com/post/a-glossary-for-querying-writers

Just one more thing ... about parents, bedtime stories, and about Columbo too. #mystery #Columbo

Belgian poster for DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Cummings - BOTD in 1910

Abono thermal power plant, Asturias, Spain (1980)

Alphaville 1965 • Jean-Luc Godard

(1963)

Sneaking in a #caturday repost at the deadline.

Strait-Jacket (1964) #Svengoolie

Janice Logan, "Dr. Cyclops" (1940).

Drink a shot every time someone says “Bigelow” in this movie. I dare you.

After an uncharacteristic delay, print copies of the May/June Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine are now reaching newsstands and subscribers. I have a story in this issue, so if you like it, let me know, and tell a friend. And if you don't like it, tell an enemy! I'll take readers where I find them.

Some crimes are worse than murder. Top Ten Film Noirs ... That Aren't About Crime, Part 2 #filmnoir

It's Halloween all-year long at The Hourglass. Top Ten Classic Monster Movies -- Part 1 #HorrorMovies #horror #monsters

David Lynch by Marco Grob

📽 Side-eye from Ava Gardner in #FilmNoir The Killers (1946)

Nightmare Clinic by Dean Hudson (Evan Hunter) Cover by Robert Bonfils

Why my decade-old comic book blog pivoted to crime fiction. Secret Origins

Breaking down descriptive text from a crime fiction master. Ross Macdonald's Art of Description #CrimeFiction #crimewriting

The opening from Fellini's lost stop-motion dinosaur epic.

Curtis Mayfield (June 3rd, 1942 – December 26th, 1999)

Latest publications from my colleagues at the Short Mystery Fiction Society. shortmystery.blogspot.com/2025/06/may-...

Celebrating Actress, Singer, Dancer, Secret Service Agent WWll BOTD 1906. Photo Gaston Paris c. 1926🌹 #JosephineBaker

Bogie and Bacall ❤️🎬 #valentinesday #filmsky #moviesky

The Spider-Man of Into The Groovy-verse.

Harlan Ellison: “You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that’s all there is to it.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/on-writing-3... #writing

Andy Warhol and Alfred Hitchcock by Jill Krementz (1974)

The cure for the blues, as a writer, is to write. Show up. Do the work. Submit. Repeat. #WritingCommunity #crimewriting

🚨 GODZILLA IN THEATERS 🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Watched: Everyone in this movie is a bloody lunatic. i.redd.it/15sh0s4uosee...

"This above all - to thine own self be true" #ShakespeareSunday

#caturday repost

Carole Lombard (1935)

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

Happy birthday to Agnès Varda, who would’ve been 97 years old today