Filmnoir Stories

1940s Chicago doesn't sleep - it watches. In a city of jazz clubs, rain-soaked streets, and buried secrets, rumours spread about a man who moves like music and disappears like smoke. They call him a criminal. They call him a myth. They call him Smooth. When Y/N is pulled into his world, she finds herself caught between love, danger, and a mystery the city refuses to solve. Because in Chicago, nothing is ever just a story... and no one stays innocent for long.

After murdering Olivia's mother, Patrick Bateman is left raising their daughter alone in a luxury Manhattan apartment where appearances matter more than anything else. To the outside world, Patrick is perfect - rich, charming, attentive, and impossibly composed - the kind of father everyone admires. But behind closed doors, Olivia grows up surrounded by bloodstained secrets, whispered threats, and the terrifying realization that her father is a serial killer who never stopped murdering people. As she gets older, Patrick becomes more controlling and possessive, using fear to keep her silent while continuing to pretend they are a normal family. Trapped between loving him and fearing him, Olivia spends her life trying to survive a man nobody would ever believe was capable of hurting anyone, especially his own daughter.

When private detective Tom Hart is hired to find a missing heiress, he uncovers a web of betrayal, greed, and murder. In the rain-soaked streets of 1940s Los Angeles, no one is innocent.

The World of the Kingdom of Sero is a world mixed with smoke and guns and all kinds of magical creatures. An oneiric setting, stroked by the color of graphite. And soon, that world would be ruled by Prince Cory Elcidelibro. Or that's what was supposed to happen. For what he didn't realize was that there existed another world right outside. And his was just a fading ember, a fading scape. A burnt-out world that he would need to leave. Touched by the zeitgeist of the film noir genre and fantastical elements, the novella "Embscape" not only encapsulates a story, but the shades that come with writing one.

Subject: Ink Stained Classification: Tooniverse-Reality Crossover / Gender Anomaly Location: Los Angeles, 1947 Status: Active Investigation They say some nights change everything. Naomi doesn't remember all of it. She remembers the haze. Screams splitting the dark. The sharp stench of rubber and acid. Red and blue lights bleeding through the night. And dread. [Case File 01 - Genderverse Files | Standalone Story] A gender-bent reimagining of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" told through smoke, laughter, and spilled ink.

A grisly murder in 1969 leaves behind one witness, an eight year old boy. Now, the year is 1980. 17 years have passed, and the witness has become a detective trying to find justice.

What should have been a routine investigation into a cold case of a ghostly student's murder leads Harry 'The Hammer' Potter-Mason back down a dark road where he finds himself the right wizard at the wrong time in the right place to see his peers petrified one by one. Seeing the similarities between past and present, The Hammer works the old case and the new with the help of his trusted friends and investigation team to bring the true killer to justice only to find that it leads back to the only person who could have started all of this: the Dark Lord Voldemort. Find out more in the Hammer's next thrilling mystery: The Case of the Serpent's Shadow. THIS IS A SEQUEL TO THE CASE OF THE CINTAMANI STONE

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Harry Potter-Mason wants nothing more than to be a detective in the Met like his adoptive father. He's immersed himself in Film Noir and the hard-boiled greats, taken to being called "The Hammer" as he tries to find out more about how his parents died. One day a letter arrives telling him that he's a wizard, giving him one answer while asking more questions than the Hammer can count. Harry finds himself welcomed back to the wizarding world, not simply as one of their own, but as a celebrity. He finds himself 'the boy who lived': the only one to ever survive the killing curse from a villain stylizing himself The Dark Lord Voldemort, who had begun a brutal wizarding war, only to vanish after failing to kill Harry. In a post-war world, not everything is daisies at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry either. The Hammer and his newfound friends chase after an item brought in with its own mysteries - a perilous, foolhardy investigation that sets them at odds with their peers and the establishment on their quest for the truth, not only to prevent the item from falling into the hands of evil, but also the secret fate of the man who murdered Harry's parents. AU Notes: Petunia Evans married a detective from Scotland Yard whilst Harry grew up obsessed with hard boiled film noir detective movies and Humphrey Bogart.

A compilation of film reviews and descriptions primarily from the Classical Hollywood era.

An attempt at film noir

A short, tongue-in-cheek guide to old classic movies from the film noir era. Like Pauline Kael only cooler! Film noir (a term adopted well after these movies were made) represented a dark departure from the upbeat films that Hollywood produced up until the early 1940s. This collection of movie reviews provides a guide to some of most notable entries into that classic canon. This book is the first installment of a series. The second book provides a handy guide to neo-noir movies. Also, check out the trivia questions. Test your knowledge. And stay tuned for more guides to the best and the worst movies Hollywood has created.

Padawan Calia Rayyah had spent virtually her entire life living high up in the Jedi Temple on the Republic's capital Coruscant. She had always dreamed of being a Jedi Consular, negotiating peace and bringing the disparate beings of the galaxy together, and with the Clone Wars raging she imagined her talents would be needed more than ever. Jedi Knight Richar Arten, has dedicated his life to Coruscant's underlevels, to trying to make life better for the countless beings who struggled to survive against the crime, drugs, and poverty which existed everywhere far below the notice of the Jedi and Republic. Assigned as Arten's Padawan, Calia finds her world completely shattered as she is asked to spy on her new Master, who the council believes may be in danger of falling to the Dark Side. Meanwhile, military-grade Republic weapons begin to find their way down to the underlevels, threatening to escalate the pain and violence to new levels. Master and Padawan will have to learn from each other if they have any hope of overcoming this new threat, and maybe make life just a little better below the temple.

It's rare when criminals don't have to worry at night about being arrested or shoot dead.

A new leaf, a criminal syndicate, a past filled with ambition transferred to the present alongside a world filled with an entirely new breed of bad guys. This is the world Detective Moe Wolf must navigate after turning his life around whilst accompanied by Diane Foxington. His journey starts with a missing person yet soon spirals into a world filled with dread and despair. [COARSE LANGUAGE AND REFERENCE ADVISORY: THIS STORY CONTAINS REFERENCES TO DRUGS, ALCOHOL, THREAT BY GUNPOINT, CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, NUDITY AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY! IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED TO READ THIS UNLESS YOU ARE EITHER EIGHTEEN+ OR KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GETTING INTO!] [ACT I COMPLETION DATE: 2022-10-28] Inspired by Backbone (Game) & Film Noir (Movie Genre) [Current Word Count: ~40,000]

Dr. Nathaniel Carver is one of the most brilliant minds of modern science; a PhD at twenty-three, the cover of TIME by twenty-five, horrendous fashion sense always. Despite his affinity with every imaginable shade of brown, however, he has managed to make one of the most monumental discoveries known to mankind; interdimensional travel.

Vincent Black, a promising young college student, finds his life turned upside down when his beloved university beauty queen, Tana Molnar, is shot dead at a community event. Driven for answers, Vincent probes an occult, phantom-like sex trafficking operation by the name of Dream Rabbit. Past the point of no return, his continual search for answers threaten to lead him to a similar early grave.

Edward Barnaby, an amateur detective in 1950s Massachusetts, is slowly falling for his partner, James- who just so happens to be a suspect in his first murder case.