@AgnesCallard @fehloop @eschwitz For detective stories, I think maybe the classic hard boiled golden age detective novels such as by Dashiell Hammett, esp his Glass Key and Maltese Falcon, shed light on the human condition in an existentialist sense (grim state of nature, small glimpses of humanity)

Introduce yourself, 7 books: -The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett -Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by MR James -A Scanner Darkly by PKD -Weaveworld by Clive Barker -Dangerous Visions ed. by Harlan Ellison -The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler -The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells https://t.co/0qz9er0ocD

@VideoArchives as Spaghetti Westerns are usually noir stories set in the West and I'm a noir-ish person, i went with SW.. and if people wonder where that pedigree comes from, remember the original SWs were remakes of Kurosawa films that were adaptations of Dashiell Hammett books