Both Lovecraft and Matheson have said that in order to have
an effective weird story, everything about the story except
the supernatural element
(singular) should be normal. It often seems to be more a case
of a supernatural element entering a Hard-boiled world. I
recently read Fritz Leiber's "An Automatic Pistol" about a
guy whose handgun was his familiar, and avenged his murder.
It was very H-B in every other respect, and I saw no
conflict. Horror is an emotion, Hard-boiled (and Noir) are
worldviews and styles of writing. They aren't mutually
exclusive all, but very complimentary.
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