James Ellroy/YMMV


 * Complete Monster: At least one per book, and these are complete monsters by the standards of Ellroy's characters.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: Pete Bondurant forcing a Klansmen ally to hand out frozen turkeys in a poor black neighborhood dressed as Santa Claus.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Any of the many, many descriptions of torture. One of the worst is the extract from the killer's journal in The Black Dahlia. Also the woman in  from The Cold Six Thousand.