Darkness at Dawn: Early Suspense Classics by Cornell Woolrich - Softcover

Cornell Woolrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872262049 ISBN 13: 9780872262041

Publisher: Peter Bedrick Books, 1988

Synopsis

From 1934 until his death in 1968, Cor­nell 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

 

Introducing these 13 tales, Nevins de­scribes the dark world Woolrich so viv­idly 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 hun­gry wife and children, and anxiety eating him like a cancer. If a Woolrich protago­nist is in love, the beloved is likely to vanish in such a way that he not only canâ t find her but canâ t convince anyone she ever existed.â

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Bedrick Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0872262049
• ISBN 13: 9780872262041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 297