Paul Ryan O'Connor

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Blogger & award-winning crime fiction author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place. https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories

Moody shot of commuter train at night.
Fiend Without A Face movie post has it all ... men, guns, a monstrous brain, and a girl wrapped in a bath towel.
Beware the power of the great golden brain!
Beau Travail movie poster
Movie poster for "The Getaway" -- pistol, bullets, identification papers for Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw.
An airman in movie poster for One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
"Charlie Varrick" movie poster, with Walter Matthau and a biplane.
Green mask of a woman's face, held by skeletal hands.
Illustration by Renato Fratini, man with pistol aims at man in door, sheltering woman. There's a lot of orange.
Yojimbo movie poster.
Movie poster for Berlin Express.
Pulp magazine cover image, a woman holds out both hands in a "stopping" gesture.
Spidey sense, radar sense
Bullitt movie poster.
Bone cairn on movie poster for 28 Years Later.
OMAC splash page by Jack Kirby -- body parts in a box for "Lila," Build-A-Friend.
Pensive woman, in purples and blues.
Gerry Anderson answers the phone for his puppet.
Movie poster for "In The Mood For Love."
Long wedding train on white gown.
Sidney Greenstreet in "Casablana," in white suit and dark fez.
Hulk leads Dr. Strange and Valkyrie into the distance -- enough of this!
"Crime of Passion" movie poster, with TWO Stanwycks!
Movie poster for "To The Devil ... A Daughter" Paper poster unfolded for photo, crease marks show.
Spidey on a shrink's couch, bedeviled by ghosts of enemies past. Steve Ditko, Amazing Spider-Man #24.
Movie poster for The Long Good Friday, looking more like the Long Brown Friday.
Man-Ape, by Frazetta.
From the movie "Laura," Clifton Webb as writer Waldo Lydecker uses his typewritter while in the bathtub.
Blonde woman in red blouse crosses her arms and looks off-camera with a mixture of impatience and interest.
“Quadruple amputee cornhole professional jailed on murder charges”
Movie poster for French/Italian film, "Witness In The City"
Image from "Hell Drivers" movie.
Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff from The Bride of Frankenstein.
King Kong battles biplanes atop the Empire State Building.
Edward G. Robinson featured in movie poster for "Illegal."
Movie poster for Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles. Alienated at the dinner table.
Movie poster for Wanda, by Barbara Loden.
Ms. 45 movie poster. Legs.
The mob muscles in on Bugs Bunny.
Movie post for "Fascination." Woman with scythe.
Edward G. Robinson in movie poster for Five Star Final.
Grungy old clock.
Movie poster from The Big Sky. Shirtless Kirk Douglas hefts a hatchet.
Movie post for To Live And Die In L.A.
Illustration by Renato Fratini.
Zoltan, Hound of Dracula home video cover.
Renato Fratini
Popeye Doyle waves hello.
Lawrence Olivier tortures Dustin Hoffmann with dental tools in scene from The Marathon Man.
Books! Too many books. And some text.
Dogs on ice.
Frodo and Sam behold Barad-Dur.
Prime Cut movie poster, with Lee Marvin & Gene Hackman.
Movie poster for "Dance, Girl, Dance." Warning says it is "not suitable for general exhibition."
Scarface movie poster.
Edward G. Robinson, equally parts natty and threatening.
Klinger from MASH.
Last shot of When Worlds Collide -- idealized paradise world.
Elevator To The Gallows movie poster.