Psychopaths, dwarfs, albinos, tubards, one-legged women, alcoholics, sadists, schizophrenics, impotent people, drug addicts hearing "goats howling in the night" ; Thompson is interested in monsters, he is the Tod Browning of the pulp. Lou Ford, the schizophrenic cop from The Killer Inside Me the Thompsonian "hero" par excellence, explains to one of his victims where he is ; " I think i put one foot on each side of the barrier .... I planted them there a long time ago and now they've taken root, so i can't go one way or the other, and i can't jump.
Jim Thompson - The Dark Work
Nicholas Ungemuth
Le Figaro
2012
Nicholas Ungemuth
Le Figaro
2012
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