History Creator / JimThompson

* 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 ''Literature/Horns'' as a Jim Thompson riff.

* BigNameFan: Stephen King 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. Joe Hill has referred to a section of his novel ''Literature/Horns'' as a Jim Thompson riff.

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* BigNameFan: Stephen King wrote an introduction to Thompson's first novel, ''Now and On Earth'', and name dropped him in '' Literature/TheDarkHalf''.

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!! Thompson novels:

James Myers Thompson was an American author and screenwriter, known for his pulp crime fiction.

* ''[[Series/Ironside1967Ironside'']]

* [[Series/Ironside1967''Ironside'']]

* ''[[Series/Ironside(1967) Ironside]]''

* ''Ironside''

* TheAlcoholic: Thompson wrote a novel called The Alcoholics, and was definitely one himself.
* BigNameFan: Stephen King wrote an introduction to Thompson's novel Now and On Earth, and name dropped him in '' Literature/TheDarkHalf''.

* TheFilmOfTheBook: [[Film/TheGrifters A]] [[Film/TheGetaway number]] [[Film/TheKillerInsideMe of]] times, with The Getaway, The Killer Inside Me, and Pop. 1280 each being adapted twice.

* TheFilmOfTheBook: [[Film/TheGrifters A]] [[Film/TheGetaway number]] [[Film/TheKillerInsideMe of]] times, with several novels being adapted more than once.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: His sold well in France while going out of print in the United States.

Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: ''The Killer Inside Me'', ''Savage Night'', ''A Hell of a Woman'' and ''Pop. 1280''. In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism. A number of Thompson's books became popular films, including [[Film/The Getaway ''The Getaway'']] and ''The Grifters''.

Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: ''The Killer Inside Me'', ''Savage Night'', ''A Hell of a Woman'' and ''Pop. 1280''. In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism. A number of Thompson's books became popular films, including [[The Getaway/Film ''The Getaway'']] and ''The Grifters''.

Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: ''The Killer Inside Me'', ''Savage Night'', ''A Hell of a Woman'' and ''Pop. 1280''. In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism. A number of Thompson's books became popular films, including ''The Getaway'' and ''The Grifters''.

* TheAlcoholic

* TheAlcoholic
* MissingEpisode" A novella called ''Lunatic at Large'', only a few pages of which have been located.

* TheAlcoholic

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Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Despite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in The New York Times, he was little-recognized in his lifetime. Only after death did Thompson's literary stature grow, when in the late 1980s, several novels were re-published in the Black Lizard series of re-discovered crime fiction.

Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman and Pop. 1280. In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism.[citation needed] A number of Thompson's books became popular films, including The Getaway and The Grifters.

Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman and Pop. 1280. In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism.[citation needed] A number of Thompson's books became popular films, including The Getaway and The Grifters.

Tropes associated with his works include:

[[Index]]CRAPSACK WORLD[[Index]]: In spades.
[[Index]]VILLAIN PROTAGONIST]]: Lou Ford in ''The Killer Inside Me'', Nick Corey in ''Pop. 1280'', among others.

Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman and Pop. 1280. In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism.[citation needed] A number of Thompson's books became popular films, including The Getaway and The Grifters