History Creator / JimThompson

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Or maybe Early Installment ''Lack'' of Weirdness. His first two novels, ''Now and on Earth'' and ''Heed the Thunder'' are fairly straightforward 'literary' novels. They don't feature the same kind of off-kilter paranoia and occasional surrealism of his best-known later material.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Or maybe Early Installment Lack of Weirdness. His first two novels, ''Now and on Earth'' and ''Heed the Thunder'' are fairly straightforward 'literary' novels. They don't feature the same kind of off-kilter paranoia and occasional surrealism of his best-known later material.

* ''After Dark, My Sweet''

* ''Film/CoupDeTorchon'' -- 1981 French film that adapted ''Pop. 1280'', with a SettingUpdate from the pre-WWI American South to 1938 French West Africa

* ''Film/SerieNoire'' -- 1979 French film that adapted ''A Hell of a Woman'', starring Creator/PatrickDewaere
* ''Film/CoupDeTorchon'' -- 1981 French film that adapted ''Pop. 1280'', with a setting update from the pre-WWI American South to 1938 French West Africa

* ''Film/AfterDarkMySweet'' -- 1990 adaptation of Thompson's novel that has a place on the RogerEbertGreatMoviesList.

* BigNameFan: Creator/StephenKing wrote an introduction to Thompson's first novel, ''Now and On Earth'', and name dropped him in '' Literature/TheDarkHalf''. He also dedicated his novel ''Literature/TheRegulators'' to Thompson and [[Creator/SamPeckinpah Sam Peckinpah]]. In 2012, he tweeted a picture of himself with brand new paperback editions of ''The Alcoholics'', ''A Swell-Looking Babe'', and ''After Dark, My Sweet''.
** Creator/JoeHill has referred to a section of his novel ''Horns'' as a Jim Thompson riff.
** Creator/FrankMiller has said of [[ComicBook/SinCity Sin City]] that "it's Jim Thompson's world, it's not [[Creator/StevenSpielberg Steven Spielberg's]] world".
** In a brief 2012 essay, [[Literature/HarryHole Jo Nesbø]] called Thompson "the genius who portrayed the American psychopath in the first person some forty years before [[Creator/BretEastonEllis Bret Easton Ellis]] did the same in [[Literature/AmericanPsycho American Psycho]]."

* ''Film/CoupDeTorchon'' -- 1981 French film that adapted ''Pop. 1280'', with a setting update from the pre-WWI American South to 1938 French West Africa

* MissingEpisode: The novella ''Lunatic at Large'', only a few pages of which have been located.

** In a brief 2012 essay, [[Literature/HarryHole Jo Nesbø]] called Thompson "the genius who portrayed the American psychopath in the first person some forty years before [[Creator/BrettEastonEllis Brett Easton Ellis]] did the same in [[Literature/AmericanPsycho American Psycho]]."

* BigNameFan: Creator/StephenKing wrote an introduction to Thompson's first novel, ''Now and On Earth'', and name dropped him in '' Literature/TheDarkHalf''. He also dedicated his novel ''Literature/TheRegulators'' to Thompson and Sam Peckinpah. In 2012, he tweeted a picture of himself with brand new paperback editions of ''The Alcoholics'', ''A Swell-Looking Babe'', and ''After Dark, My Sweet''.

** In a brief 2012 essay, [[Literature/HarryHole Jo Nesbø]] called Thompson "the genius who portrayed the American psychopath in the first person some forty years before Brett Easton Ellis did the same in American Psycho."

* BigNameFan: Creator/StephenKing wrote an introduction to Thompson's first novel, ''Now and On Earth'', and name dropped him in '' Literature/TheDarkHalf''. He also dedicated his novel ''Literature/TheRegulators'' to Thompson and Sam Peckinpah.

** Creator/FrankMiller has said of Sin City that "it's Jim Thompson's world, it's not Steven Spielberg's world".
** In a brief 2012 essay, [[Literature/HarryHole Jo Nesbø]] called Thompson " the genius who portrayed the American psychopath in the first person some forty years before Brett Easton Ellis did the same in American Psycho."

* BigNameFan: Creator/StephenKing wrote an introduction to Thompson's first novel, ''Now and On Earth'', and name dropped him in '' Literature/TheDarkHalf''. He also dedicated his novel ''Literature/TheRegulators'' to Thompson and Sam Peckinpah. Creator/JoeHill has referred to a section of his novel ''Horns'' as a Jim Thompson riff. Creator/FrankMiller has said of Sin City that "it's Jim Thompson's world, it's not Steven Spielberg's world".

* BigNameFan: Creator/StephenKing wrote an introduction to Thompson's first novel, ''Now and On Earth'', and name dropped him in '' Literature/TheDarkHalf''. He also dedicated his novel ''Literature/TheRegulators'' to Thompson and Sam Peckinpah. Creator/JoeHill has referred to a section of his novel ''Horns'' as a Jim Thompson riff. Creator/FrankMiller has said of [[ComicBook/SinCity]] that "it's Jim Thompson's world, it's not [[Creator/StevenSpielberg]]'s world".

* BigNameFan: Creator/StephenKing wrote an introduction to Thompson's first novel, ''Now and On Earth'', and name dropped him in '' Literature/TheDarkHalf''. He also dedicated his novel ''Literature/TheRegulators'' to Thompson and Sam Peckinpah. Creator/JoeHill has referred to a section of his novel ''Horns'' as a Jim Thompson riff. Creator/FrankMiller has said of [[ComicBook/Sin City]] that "it's Jim Thompson's world, it's not Steven Spielberg's world".

* BigNameFan: Creator/StephenKing wrote an introduction to Thompson's first novel, ''Now and On Earth'', and name dropped him in '' Literature/TheDarkHalf''. He also dedicated his novel ''Literature/TheRegulators'' to Thompson and Sam Peckinpah. Creator/JoeHill has referred to a section of his novel ''Horns'' as a Jim Thompson riff. Creator/FrankMiller has said of Sin City that "it's Jim Thompson's world, it's not Steven Spielberg's world".

* BigNameFan: Creator/StephenKing wrote an introduction to Thompson's first novel, ''Now and On Earth'', and name dropped him in '' Literature/TheDarkHalf''. He also dedicated his novel ''Literature/TheRegulators'' to Thompson and Sam Peckinpah. Creator/JoeHill has referred to a section of his novel ''Horns'' as a Jim Thompson riff. Creator/FrankMiller has said of Sin City that "it's Jim Thompson's world, it's not not Steven Spielberg's world".

* BigNameFan: Creator/StephenKing wrote an introduction to Thompson's first novel, ''Now and On Earth'', and name dropped him in '' Literature/TheDarkHalf''. He also dedicated his novel ''Literature/TheRegulators'' to Thompson and Sam Peckinpah. Creator/JoeHill has referred to a section of his novel ''Horns'' as a Jim Thompson riff.