They say everybody loves a happy ending, but as is usually the case, they are full of it. Noir is an existentially and essentially pessimistic genre, and thus its readers crave—nay, demand—dark, despairing endings. As the demon dog of crime fiction himself, James Ellroy, once put it: “The overarching and lasting appeal of noir is … Continue reading The 12 Darkest Endings in the History of Noir Fiction