Fallen Angels: Six Noir Tales Told for Television is a 1993 anthology, published by Grove Press as a tie-in to the Showtime television series Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels (TV series)

Fallen Angels was an American neo-noir anthology television series that ran from 1993 to 1995 on the Showtime pay cable station and was produced by Propaganda Films. No first-run episodes were shown in 1994....

that appeared in the fall of 1993.

The book contains six stories by six masters of hard-boiled noir and the teleplays for their film adaptations.

The hard-boiled stories were written by: Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.In 1932, at age forty-five, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in...

, Jim Thompson, William Campbell Gault, Cornell Woolrich

Cornell Woolrich

Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley....

, Jonathan Craig and James Ellroy

James Ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a so-called "telegraphic" prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black...

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Preface: by James Ellroy.

Stories

• "Dead End for Delia," by William Campbell Gault.
• "I'll Be Waiting," by Raymond Chandler.
• "The Quiet Room," by Jonathan Craig.
• "The Frightening Frammis," by Jim Thompson.
• "Murder Obliquely," by Cornell Woolrich.
• "Since I Don't Have You," by James Ellroy.

Screenplays

• "Dead End for Delia," by Scott Frank
  Scott Frank
  Scott Frank is an American screenwriter & director.- Filmography :*Plain Clothes *Dead Again *Little Man Tate *Malice *Get Shorty...
  
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• "I'll Be Waiting," by C. Gaby Mitchell.
• "The Quiet Room," by Howard A. Rodman.
• "The Frightening Frammis," by Jon Robin Baitz
  Jon Robin Baitz
  Jon Robin Baitz is an American playwright, screenwriter, television producer and sometime actor.-Life and career:Baitz was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Edward Baitz, an executive of the Carnation Company. Baitz was raised in Brazil and South Africa before the family returned to...
  
   and Howard A. Rodman.
• "Murder Obliquely," by Amanda Silver.
• "Since I Don't Have You," by Steven Katz.

See also

• Fallen Angels
  Fallen Angels (TV series)
  Fallen Angels was an American neo-noir anthology television series that ran from 1993 to 1995 on the Showtime pay cable station and was produced by Propaganda Films. No first-run episodes were shown in 1994....
  
  .
• List of Fallen Angels episodes.