Dark

thematically connected

The Big Sleep

Chandler's Marlowe stories invented the hard-boiled detective — every noir owes a debt

thematically connected

Steppenwolf

Hesse's novel about the divided self maps onto the album's themes of madness and alienation

thematically connected

Disco Elysium

The greatest detective RPG — your brain is the crime scene

thematically connected

True Detective

McConaughey and Harrelson in the Louisiana dark — philosophical noir at its peak