Crooked Man

Crooked Man may refer to:

  • "The Crooked Man", alternate title of "The Adventure of the Crooked Man", a Sherlock Holmes short story
  • "The Crooked Man", The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV series) first season episode
  • "The Crooked Man", an episode of the animated show Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
  • "The Crooked Man", The Adventures of Ellery Queen television episode
  • The Crooked Man, a 2003 British television movie starring Ross Kemp
  • "Crooked Man", nickname of Marvel Comics character Mad Jim Jaspers
  • A Crooked Man, a novel by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
  • "The Crooked Man", a Melinda Snodgrass short story in Card Sharks (anthology)
  • "The Crooked Man", a Charles Beaumont short story
  • "The Crooked Man", a song from Western Approaches (album)
  • "Crooked Man", an As You Were (album) track
  • The Crooked Man, a Hellboy limited series by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben.
  • Crooked Man, a 2011 international stand-up tour by Tommy Tiernan.

Famous quotes containing the words crooked man, crooked and/or man:

    “There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,
    He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile:
    He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
    And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile (l. 1–4)

    “A brush had left a crooked stroke
    Of what was either cloud or smoke
    From north to south across the blue;
    A piercing little star was through.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it’s good fun.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)