Is she real, this ghost, or is she a figment of his own psyche? You’ll have to decide, but if “Marion, Missing” were turned into a film, it would be grainy black and white, and definitely film noir.Ĭynthia Eden kept the cynical P.I. Rachel Caine, in “Marion, Missing,” draws most heavily on the film noir world with her setting of 1940s Texas, a private investigator, and the ghost of the PI’s former partner. In its most derivative form, it would pattern itself on film noir, with the cynical world-wearing hero, the tough-talking sexy woman, and probably a gangster or two who’d end up forcing the hero out of his cynical laissez-faire attitude and propelling him to action.īy deliberately not setting out with a definition of paranormal noir, we thought we’d get a wide variety of interpretations although each of the authors-Rachel Caine, Cynthia Eden, Megan Hart, Jeffe Kennedy, Mina Khan, and myself-all write somewhere in the urban fantasy-paranormal romance spectrum. In its broadest form, it simply means a dark paranormal story. When my fellow authors and I embarked on the project to do a paranormal noir anthology of all-new novellas, we deliberately decided not to set out a definition of what “paranormal noir” meant.
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