I guess this week’s PFT qualifies as gallows humor. I plead guilty to a love of black comedy, the darker the better. I’m also using the title of a David Byrne tune as the title so I’ll post it before getting on with it:

We begin with the book that was transformed into the film noir classic, Out Of The Past.

In the U.K. the movie kept the title of its source material:

We’ll hang out some more after the break.

Here are 4-count ’em 4-more covers to, uh, rope you in:

I would be remiss in my duties as your pulp curator if I didn’t conclude with this Clint Eastwood film poster. This was one of those rare movies that my father attended with my mother and me. I liked it, she was horrified, and he fell asleep. So it goes.