Hollywood Nocturnes

First edition cover
Author	James Ellroy
Cover artist	Jacket design by Chip Kidd (as Iacone Ink)
Language	English
Genre	Short stories, crime fiction
Publisher	Otto Penzler Books
Publication date	April 1994
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback) and audio cassette
Pages	229 pp (first edition, hardcover)
ISBN	978-1-883402-54-9 (first edition, hardcover)

Hollywood Nocturnes is a 1994 collection of short stories by James Ellroy. Like many of Ellroy's novels, the majority of the stories are set in 1940s and 1950s. The collection was inspired by Ellroy's having seen the film Daddy-O and finding cosmic significance in the image of Dick Contino, whom Ellroy tracked down to interview for the book. The first segment of the book, "Dick Contino's Blues", is a novella about Contino tracking down a serial killer while trying to repair his public image after being labeled a draft dodger. Several other stories resurrect deceased Ellroy protagonists, recalling major events in their lives as they near death.

• "Out of the Past"
• "Dick Contino's Blues"
• "High Darktown"
• "Dial Axminster 6-400"
• "Since I Don't Have You"
• "Gravy Train"
• "Torch Number"

The collection was also published outside the United States as Dick Contino's Blues and other stories.^[1] "Out of the Past" is the first piece in the collection, but is included as an "Introduction" by the author, rather than as a short story^{[citation needed]}.

A version of Dick Contino's Blues appeared in issue number 46 of Granta magazine (Winter 1994) along with several photographs of Contino and the author.

v t e Works by James Ellroy
Stand-alone	Brown's Requiem (1981) Clandestine (1982) Killer on the Road (1986) Widespread Panic (2021)
Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy	Blood on the Moon (1984) Because the Night (1984) Suicide Hill (1986)
L.A. Quartet	The Black Dahlia (1987) The Big Nowhere (1988) L.A. Confidential (1990) White Jazz (1992)
Underworld USA Trilogy	American Tabloid (1995) The Cold Six Thousand (2001) Blood's a Rover (2009)
The L.A. Quintet	Perfidia (2014) This Storm (2019) The Enchanters (2023)
Short story collections	Hollywood Nocturnes (1994) Crime Wave (1999) Destination: Morgue! (2004)
Non-fiction	My Dark Places (1996) The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women (2010) LAPD '53 (2015)
Original screenplays	Dark Blue (2002) Street Kings (2008) Rampart (2011)
Film adaptations	Cop (1988) L.A. Confidential (1997) Brown's Requiem (1998) The Black Dahlia (2006)
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