Cornell Woolrich was a haunted man who lived a life of reclusive misery, but he was also a uniquely gifted writer who explored the classic noir themes of loneliness, despair and futility. His stories are masterpieces of psychological suspense and mystery, and they have inspired classic movies like Hitchcock's Rear Window and Truffaut's The Bride wore Black. This collection brings together twelve of his finest, most powerful and disturbing tales.

Nightwebs: A Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich

Literature & Fiction

Cornell Woolrich

Genre Fiction

Harper&Row

I Married a Dead Man

I Married A Dead Man (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage)

William Irish

Penguin Classics

Rear Window

Short Stories & Anthologies

Simon&Schuster

A collection of noir suspense tales by the late mid-twentieth century writer includes nine pieces written during the late 1950s and 1960s, two excerpts from an autobiographical manuscript, and five chapters from his unfinished novel.

Tonight, Somewhere in New York: The Last Stories and an Unfinished Novel

United States

Da Capo Press

An anthology by more than a dozen classic "locked room" mysteries presents short stories by such noted masters of the genre as Hecht, Carr, Poe, and Chesterton

Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries

Edgar Allen Poe

Jacques Futrelle

MacKinley Kantor

Barry Perowne

arthur-conan-doyle

Erle Stanley Gardner

Walker & Co BCE

On a mild midwestern night in the early 1940s, Johnny Marr leans against a drugstore wall. He’s waiting for Dorothy, his fiancée, and tonight is the last night they’ll be meeting here, for it’s May 31st, and June 1st marks their wedding day. But she’s late, and Johnny soon learns of a horrible accident—an accident involving a group of drunken men, a low-flying charter plane, and an empty liquor bottle. In one short moment Johnny loses all that matters to him and his life is shattered. He vows to take from these men exactly what they took from him. After years of planning, Johnny begins his quest for revenge, and on May 31st of each year—always on May 31st—wives, lovers, and daughters are suddenly no longer safe.

Rendezvous in Black (A Modern Library 20th Century Rediscovery)

Modern Library

Rear Window and Other Stories

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Amereon Ltd

The Bride Wore Black (Black Dagger Crime)

Black Dagger Crime Reprints

From 1934until his death in 1968, CorÂnell Woolrich wrote dozens of tales of love and despairâ that chill the heart and display his mastery of the genre he all but created. In a title for a story he never wrote, he captured the essence of his tortured world: First you dream, then you die.â
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Introducing these 13 tales, Nevins deÂscribes the dark world Woolrich so vivÂidly creates. The dominant reality in his world is the Depression, and Woolrich has no peers when it comes to describing a frightened little guy in a tiny apartment with no money, no job, a hunÂgry wife and children, and anxiety eating him like a cancer. If a Woolrich protagoÂnist is in love, the beloved is likely to vanish in such a way that he not only canât find her but canât convince anyone she ever existed.â

Darkness at Dawn: Early Suspense Classics by Cornell Woolrich

Peter Bedrick Books

Blues of a Lifetime: Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich

Blues of a Lifetime is essential reading for people interested in suspense novelist Cornell Woolrich, author of Rear Window. Woolrich’s autobiography includes accounts of his working methods, his family and home, memories of childhood, college experience, and his philosophy of life.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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