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| 5 | * SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Pete Bondurant forcing a Klansmen ally to hand out frozen turkeys in a poor black neighborhood dressed as Santa Claus. |
| 6 | * HilariousInHindsight: One of Ellroy's appearances on the Conan O'Brien show had him joking about starting an equal opportunity Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City, where he was living with his (now ex) wife at the time. One of the fellow guests on that particular interview was Creator/DaveChappelle, who would later go on to do a skit about a black White Supremacist who didn't know he was black, because he was also blind. |
| 7 | * HoYay: Quite a bit of it occurs between Danny Upshaw and Mal Considine. Not that surprising if you consider Danny's in the closet... |
| 8 | * NightmareFuel: Any of the many, many descriptions of torture. One of the worst is the extract from the killer's journal in ''The Black Dahlia''. Also the woman in [[spoiler:so much pain, with her head being crushed in a vice that she bit out her tongue so she couldn't talk - forcing her captors to kill her]] from ''The Cold Six Thousand''. |
| 9 | ** In the Black Dahlia, there's the ''graphic'' description of the child porn movie that Elizabeth Short and another girl are performing in. They were high on drugs while shooting it, and it's full of descriptions of their glassy, vacant stares, and them mouthing ''"NO"'' to the camera. You ''will'' feel dirtier than a son of a bitch, reading it. [[HeroicBSOD Even Lee Blanchard couldn't take it.]] |
| 10 | * TooBleakStoppedCaring: Ellroy's protagonists are usually assholes, and his antagonists are even worse. At some point the reader is likely to think that if they just killed each other off, the world would be an ever-so-slightly better place. |
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