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The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications. [1] In the introduction to the anthology Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s , it is described as "one of the most blistering and uncompromising crime novels ever written."
Published in 1952, The Killer Inside Me is a true classic of noir crime fiction--a dark, disturbing tale that seems somehow to improve with each reading, in this case, the third for me. The story is narrated by Lou Ford, a deputy sheriff in the small west Texas town of Central City.
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The Killer Inside Me won considerable praise in 1952 when it was published, and in the years since, the book has come to be seen as one of the pivotal texts in the American noir tradition. In the ...
Apr 18, 2017 · Celebrated crime novelist Jim Thompson's sinewy, brutal, and beloved novel comes to life in this graphic noir novel!In THE KILLER INSIDE ME, Thompson went where few have dared, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the evil mind of the American serial killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho.
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Jun 3, 2010 · Unlike Mr. Tavernier or even Mr. Frears, who took certain liberties, Mr. Winterbottom was at pains to make what he calls a “very literal film,” one that deviates little from the text of the ...
Nov 1, 2011 · In The Killer Inside Me, America's "Dimestore Dostoevsky" Jim Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists of all time.Everyone in the ...
Mar 13, 1991 · Jim Thompson wrote The Killer Inside Me in 1952 for Lion Books, a publisher of paperback originals. Lion gave him a synopsis to work from, but Thompson radically changed the formula to his own, and astonished his publisher by writing the book in four weeks.
