Mark Sullivan (AnonymeInc@webtv.net)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:56:15 -0400 (EDT)
Mark Blumenthal wrote:
<<Richard Stark's(Westlake) __Slayground__. Parker
takes shelter in an amusement park after an armored car
robbery has gone very badly. . . . He returns to the park in
a later book of the series.>>
Parker returns to the park in Butcher's Moon, the last of the
original run of Parker books, 23 years before their recent
revival.
Speaking of carnivals, Michael Chong brought up Gresham's
Nightmare Alley in his original query. This was originally
set to be the third in Art Spiegelman's Neon Lit series of
graphic adaptations of noir novels, following Paul Auster's
City of Glass and Barry Gifford's Perdito Durango. I have the
first two. The third never came out. right? I didn't miss it,
did I?
Finally, it's not exactly noir, but you can't have a
discussion of carnivals without bringing up Todd Browning's
movie Freaks. A truly creepy movie, banned in the USA for
years, adapted into a graphic novel illustrated by Berni
Wrightson and the inspiration of the Ramones' Gabba, Gabba
Hey!
Mark
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