RARA-AVIS: Bibliographies: Jim Thompson

Along with what's listed here, Thompson wrote millions of words for newspapers, magazines and television. There are some novels and scripts (some uncompleted) still unpublished.

This bibliography is known to be missing many short stories and his WPA writings, among other things. The books list may be missing one or two titles.

Books

• Now and On Earth (Modern Age, March 1942)
• Heed the Thunder (Greenberg: Publisher, February 1946)
• Nothing More Than Murder (Harper, February 1949)
• The Killer Inside Me (Lion, September 1952)
• Cropper's Cabin (Lion, November 1952)
• Recoil (Lion, February 1953)
• The Alcoholics (Lion, March 1953)
• Bad Boy (Lion, July 1953)
• Savage Night (Lion, October 1953)
• The Criminal (Lion, December 1953)
• The Golden Gizmo (Lion, March 1954)
• Roughneck (Lion, April 1954)
• A Hell of a Woman (Lion, July 1954)
• A Swell-Looking Babe (Lion, July 1954)
• The Nothing Man (Dell, December 1954)
• After Dark, My Sweet (Popular Library, December 1955)
• The Kill-Off (Lion Library, June 1957)
• Wild Town (Signet, September 1957)
• The Getaway (Signet, January 1959)
• The Transgressors (Signet, December 1961)
• The Grifters (Regency, May 1963)
• Pop. 1280 (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1964)
• Texas By the Tail (Fawcett Gold Medal, February 1965)
• South of Heaven (Fawcett Gold Medal, May 1967)
• Ironside (novelization) (Popular Library, November 1967)
• The Undefeated (novelization) (Popular Library, October 1969)
• Nothing But a Man (novelization) (Popular Library, 1970)
• Child of Rage (Lancer Books, 1972)
• King Blood (Sphere, 1973)
• The Rip-Off (serialized in The New Black Mask Quarterly, 1985; Corgi, 1990)

Short Fiction

• "Oil Field Vignettes" (Texas Monthly, February 1929)
• "Thieves of the Field" (Texas Monthly, June 1929)
• "Bo'ger" (Cornhusker Countryman, April 1931)
• "A Road and a Memory" (Prairie Schooner, Winter 1930)
• "Chink" (Cornhusker Countryman, February 1931)
• "Character at Iraan" (Prairie Schooner, Spring 1930)
• "Close Shave" (Cornhusker Countryman, March 1931)
• "Incident in God's Country" (Cornhusker Countryman, May 1931)
• "The Car in the Mexican Quarter" (Nebraska Farmer, 22, 29 August 1931)
• "Gentlemen of the Jungle" (Praire Schooner, Fall 1931)

Short Nonfiction

• "The Strange Death of Eugene Kling" (True Detective, November 1935)
• "Ditch of Doom - The Crimson Horror of the Keechi Hills" (Master Detective, April 1936)
• "A Night with Sally" (Oklahoma Labor, 17 Septemer 1936)
• "The Riddle of the Bridge in Scarlet" (Daring Detective, October 1936)
• "Solving Oklahoma's Twin Slayings" (Master Detective, March 1938)
• "'Bad Friday' Keeney and the Trigger Spring of Guilt" (Real Detective, June 1938)
• "Pyre of Fate" (Startling Detective, February 1939)
• "Secret in the Clay" (Master Detective, March 1939)
• "Frozen Footprints - Solving the Riddle of Cache Creek" (True Detective, May 1939)
• "Oklahoma's Conspiring Lovers and the Clue of the Kicking Horse" (True Detective, August 1939)
• "The Illicit Lovers and the Walking Corpse" (Daring Detective, January 1940)
• "Case of the Giant Footprints" (Startling Detective, May 1940)
• "Catch the Keeper of the Calendar" (Intimate Detective, May 1940)
• "The Dark Stair" (Master Detective, June 1946)
• "Case of the Catalog Clue" (Master Detective, July 1948)
• "4 Murders in 4 Minutes" (Master Detective, April 1949)

Poetry

• "The Darker Drink" (The Will-o'-the-Wisp, May-June 1926)
• "Winter Trees" (The Will-o'-the-Wisp, March-April 1929)
• "A Road and a Memory" (Praire Schooner, Winter 1930)

Screenplays

• The Killing (1956) (dialogue)
• Paths of Glory (1957)

Adaptations

• The Getaway, The (1972)
• The Killer Inside Me (1976)
• Série noire (1979) (from A Hell of a Woman)
• Coup de torchon (aka Clean Slate) (1981) (from Pop. 1280)
• Kill-Off (1989)
• The Grifters (1990)
• After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
• Sweet Poison (1991) (TV)
• Getaway, The (1994)
• This World, Then the Fireworks (1996)

Actor

• Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

References

• McCauley, Michael. Jim Thompson: Sleep With the Devil (Mysterious Press, 1991)
• Polito, Robert. Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996)

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