The guy was dead

as hell.

Mickey Spillane

Vengeance Is Mine

1950

 

 Take me in some place

where I can't see them.

In away from

the open sky.

Glaring--

a thousand eyes--

Cornell Woolrich

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

1945

 Dramatics, buddy?

No, sir.  No dramatics.

God or Fate or

some mysterious force

can put the finger

on you or on me

for no good reason at all.

Martin M. Goldsmith

Detour

1939