----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Mason" <
Todd.Mason@tvguide.com> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003
12:51 PM Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Re: the noir westerns:
Nummelin
> --And, of course, we have at least one writer on
this list who's done work
> in this vein, among his other work, in James
Reasoner. TM
I don't know if any of my stuff is dark enough to fall into
that category, but I'd say some of it is hardboiled.
The thing about Western writers is that so many of them
turned out so many stories that they tried nearly all the
variations on the formula, including noir. Giles Lutz, whose
name probably wouldn't come up very often when discussing
noir Westerns, wrote one of the darkest stories I've ever
read, called "No Second Chances", about an outlaw trying to
reform. It appeared in a Fifties issue of the pulp TEXAS
RANGERS and hasn't ever been reprinted as far as I know.
There must be a lot of others like that out there in odd
places, long since forgotten.
James
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