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Darkness at Dawn: Early Suspense Classics by Cornell Woolrich
Darkness at Dawn Early Suspense Classics by Cornell Woolrich Author:Cornell Woolrich, Francis M. Nevins Jr. (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) Contents-13 tales: — -- Death sits in the dentist's chair; — -- Walls that hear you; — -- Preview of death; — -- Murder in wax; — -- The body upstairs; — -- Kiss of the cobra; — -- Red liberty; — -- Dark melody of madness; — -- The corpse and the kid; — -- Dead on her feet; — -- The death of me; — -- The showboat murders; — -- Hot water. — Introducing these 1... more »3 tales, Nevins de?scribes the dark world Woolrich so viv?idly 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 hun?gry wife and children, and anxiety eating him like a cancer. If a Woolrich protago?nist is in love, the beloved is likely to vanish in such a way that he not only cant find her but cant convince anyone she ever existed.« less