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Nightmare Town (short story)
Nightmare Town is a short story written by Dashiell Hammett in 1924. It was first published in a December issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly magazine.〔http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/biblio/hammett.html〕 It became the title story of a 1948 collection of four Hammett short stories published in paperback with illustrations. It appeared again in 1999, the eponymous story of a collection of twenty short stories edited by Kirby McCauley, Martin H Greenberg and Ed Gorman.〔http://www.worldcat.org/title/nightmare-town/oclc/3442756&referer=brief_results〕 It was adapted for BBC radio in June 2010 and read by Stuart Milligan.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ss2gz/episodes/guide〕
== Significance ==
''Nightmare Town'' begins as an adventure story, and Threefall is typical of the rough, manly hero often to be found in the genre. However, the setting is no adventure story environment, but according to Panek, a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah,
"Izzard is the city in the desert whose iniquity leads to its own destruction." (Panek, 2004)
It is the Prohibition Era, and violence and criminality are the foundations on which the town was built. Hammett had hit upon a theme which he would develop in subsequent work, such as ''Corkscrew'' (1925) and his most acclaimed novel, ''Red Harvest''(1926).
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