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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1994

ISBN
  
978-1-883402-54-9

Country
  
United States of America

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Publication date
  
April 1994

Author
  
Publisher
  
Otto Penzler

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Cover artist
  
Jacket design by Chip Kidd (as Iacone Ink)

Media type
  
Print (hardcover & paperback) and audio cassette

Pages
  
229 pp (first edition, hardcover)

Genres
  
Short story, Crime Fiction

James Ellroy books
  
Clandestine, Brown's Requiem, Suicide Hill, Because the Night, Destination: Morgue!

Hollywood Nocturnes is a 1994 collection of short stories by James Ellroy. Like many of Ellroy's novels, the majority of the stories are set in 1940s and 1950s. The collection was inspired by Ellroy's having seen the film Daddy-O and finding cosmic significance in the image of Dick Contino, whom Ellroy tracked down to interview for the book. The first segment of the book, "Dick Contino's Blues," is a novella about Contino tracking down a serial killer while trying to repair his public image after being labeled a draft-dodger. Several other stories resurrect deceased Ellroy protagonists, recalling major events in their lives as they near death.

Contents

Contents

  • "Out of the Past"
  • "Dick Contino's Blues"
  • "High Darktown"
  • "Dial Axminster 6-400"
  • "Since I Don't Have You"
  • "Gravy Train"
  • "Torch Number"
  • Alternate versions

    The collection was also published outside the United States as Dick Contino's Blues and other stories. "Out of the Past" is the first piece in the collection, but is included as an "Introduction" by the author, rather than as a short story.

    A version of Dick Contino's Blues appeared in issue number 46 of Granta magazine (Winter 1994) along with several photographs of Contino and the author.

    References

    Hollywood Nocturnes Wikipedia


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