Cornell Woolrich

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  • Bibliography:
    59 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1978
  • Latest Book:
    January 2021
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Book List in Order: 59 titles

  • Angels of Darkness

  • Rendezvous in Black

    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 thei...

  • Manhattan Love Song

    "Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. His novels and hundreds of short stories define the essence of noir nihilism."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

    The father of moder...

  • The Black Curtain

  • The Black Path of Fear

  • Black Alibi

    Black Alibi is classic Woolrich, a creepy tale of suspense. The story revolves around Kiki Walker, a second-rate American singer who becomes a sensation in South America known for her beauty and wildly red hair. Her press agent arranges for her to ...

  • Phantom Lady

  • Deadline at Dawn

    In this thrilling mystery from “the Hitchcock of the written word,” two lovers rush to solve a murder before the end of a New York night (Believer)When Quinn first meets Bricky, she’s working as a partner-for-hire at a dancehall and...

  • Waltz into Darkness

    From “the supreme master of suspense” comes the chilling chronicle of one man’s descent into madness. (New York Times)

    When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long court...



  • Rear Window and Other Stories

    Stories deal with a neighbor's suspicions of murder, a winning lottery ticket in a dead man's suit, a time-bomb, a murderer caught for a killing he did not do, and a misunderstanding that results in death...

  • The Bride Wore Black

    Raven House Mysteries - 72

    She selected her victims with care. She dispatched them with cunning. Then she vanished into thin air! The woman came out of nowhere. No one knew who she was, or why she came, or what made her do the ghastly things she did. They only knew she had a ...

  • Vampire's Honeymoon

  • Blind Date With Death

  • The Room With Something Wrong

  • Into the Night

    TWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATIONAn innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it’s up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman’s life and pick up its cut-sho...

  • Darkness at Dawn

    From 1934 until his death in 1968, Cor,­nell Woolrich wrote dozens of "tales of love and despair” that chill the heart and display his mastery of the genre he all but created. In a title for a st...

  • Rear Window

  • The Black Angel

    In this classic crime novel, a panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from the wife’s viewpoint, Woolrich evokes her love and anguish and, finally, d...

  • Night Has a Thousand Eyes

    At first Jean Reid scoffs at the strange prophet in the roominghouse. But soon she falls under his spell, returning again and again to hear his predictions of the future. Finally the prophet warns her that death will invade her home -- and that Jean ...



  • I Married a Dead Man

  • Three O'Clock

  • Night And Fear

    Cornell Woolrich published his first novel in 1926, and throughout the next four decades his fiction riveted the reading public with unparalleled mystery, suspense, and horror. America's most popular pulp magazines ...

  • Tonight Somewhere in New York

    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....

  • Fright

    Hard Case Crime - 34

    A man. A woman. A kiss in the dark. That is how it begins. But before his nightmare ends, Prescott Marshall will learn that kisses and darkness can both hide evil intent--and that the worst darkness of all may be lurking inside him. Lost for more...

  • Four Novellas of Fear

    Cornell Woolrich, best known as the author of “Rear Window,” is unsurpassed in his ability to create and sustain sheer suspense. In his tales of terror, ordinary people find themselves in the most extraordinary circumstances -- and, as readers, w...

  • A Young Man's Heart

    For the first time since 1930 this early semi-autobiographical novel by Cornell Woolrich is available. It's a tale of love and betrayal in the exotic climes of Mexico in the early 20th century. Woolrich expert Francis M. Nevins introduces the book...

  • Love and Night

    Francis M. Nevins describes the 11 crime novels written in the 1940s by Cornell Woolrich as "the finest group of suspense novels ever written." Before he became famous for classics such as Deadline at Dawn, Woolrich was already developing his themes ...

  • Dark Melody of Madness

    The supernatural novellas of Cornell Woolrich collected together for the first time. With a new introduction by Bill Pronzini and fabulous cover art by Matt Mahurin, this handsome new edition collects these chilling suspense classics: "Graves For ...

  • Speak to Me of Death

    The first in a series collecting, in uniform editions, all of the suspense and crime fiction of Cornell Woolrich. The first volume contains many stories that are seeing their first reprinting in book form in several years. Film noir expert Thomas ...



  • Mannequin

    ""Mannequin" was first published in The Saint Magazinein October, 1966. Of the four stories published by the magazine, this is easily the best. Leone, a low ranking fashion model for a Paris designer is being followed day and night for no appar"...

  • Death Sits in the Dentist's Chair

    Cornell Woolrich is "our greatest writer of Suspense Fiction" - Francis Nevins, Woolrich biographer. Death Sits in the Dentist's Chair was Cornell Woolrich's first short mystery and was published in Detective Fiction Weekly in 1934. This m...

  • The Moon of Montezuma

  • Murder, Obliquely

    Cornell Woolrich wrote a novelette for Shadow Mystery Magazine's April-May issue of 1957 titled "Death Escapes the Eye". According to Francis M. Nevins Jr, the preeminent biographer of Woolrich, this was the last story Woolrich ever wrote in firs...

  • Mystery in Room 913

    Cornell Woolrich is "our greatest writer of Suspense Fiction" - Francis Nevins, Woolrich biographer.Mystery in Room 913 is one of Woolrich's short stories considered a novella based upon it's length. Set in New York, a place he lived with his mother...

  • I'm Dangerous Tonight

    Cornell Woolrich is "our greatest writer of Suspense Fiction" - Francis Nevins, Woolrich biographer.I'm Dangerous Tonight is one of Woolrich's short stories that could really be classified as a novella based upon it's length. It...

  • The Penny-a-Worder

  • Preview of Death

    ""Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. His novels and hundreds of short stories define the essence of noir nihilism." - Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Cornell Woolrich"...

  • All It Takes Is Brains

  • Too Nice A Day To Die

    "Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. His novels and hundreds of short stories define the essence of noir nihilism." - Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Cornell Woolrich is "our gr...



  • All at Once, No Alice

    ""Along with Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir." -Newsday "Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell." - Anthony Boucher, The New Yo"...

  • For the Rest of Her Life

    ""Along with Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir." -Newsday "Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell." - Anthony Bouc"...

  • Guns, Gentlemen

    The story centers around Stephen Botiller, the son of a wealthy family with a historic and heroic past. Stephen is obsessed by a portrait in his home of his great-grand uncle, who caries the same name as Stephen and died abroad under strange and mys...

  • Hot Water

    “Along with Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir.” -- Newsday“Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.” - Anthony Boucher, The New Yor...

  • Jane Brown's Body

    It's unfortunate that Woolrich didn't try the speculative fiction more often, since his scattering of horror stories, in particular "Dark Melody of Madness," "Speak to Me of Death," its novel version Night Has a Thousand Eyes, and "Jane Brown's Bo...

  • Kiss of the Cobra

    ""Along with Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir." -Newsday "Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell." - Anthony Boucher, The New Y"...

  • Walls That Hear You

    ""Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. His novels and hundreds of short stories define the essence of noir nihilism."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review It's unfortunate"...

  • Cover Charge

    The novel that started it all - Cover Charge - Cornell Woolrich's first novel was published in 1926. Woolrich, had just turned 22 years old, a year younger than when his great influence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published This Side of Paradise. ...

  • Stories to Be Whispered

    This is the second volume of a series that will include all of Cornell Woolrich's short stories. Included are such suspense classics as "Guillotine," "Cigarette," "All At Once, No Alice," "The Hummingbird Comes Home," and the classic "The Heavy Su...

  • Literary Noir: A Series of Suspense: Volume One



  • An Obsession with Death and Dying: Volume One

    THE 50th DEATH-DAY ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION...VOL. ONE: Death Lies in WaitAn Obsession with Death and Dying is a dual-volume collection of some of the most macabre short stories Cornell Woolrich ever wrote, many of which haven't seen print for decades....

  • An Obsession with Death and Dying: Volume Two

    A 50th DEATH-DAY ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION...VOL. 2: Death Waits No MoreAn Obsession with Death and Dying is a dual-volume collection of some of the most macabre short stories Cornell Woolrich ever wrote, many of which haven't seen print for decades. In...

  • The Black Series: Vol. 1

    The six novels of Cornell Woolrich's famous Black Series—The Bride Wore Black (1940), The Black Curtain (1941), Black Alibi (1942), The Black Angel (1943), The Black Path of Fear (1944) and Rendezvous in Black (1948)—are the pinnacle of...

  • The Black Series: Vol. 2

    The six novels of Cornell Woolrich's famous Black Series—The Bride Wore Black (1940), The Black Curtain (1941), Black Alibi (1942), The Black Angel (1943), The Black Path of Fear (1944) and Rendezvous in Black (1948)—are the pinnacle of...

  • The Black Series: Vol.1

  • The Black Series: Vol.2

  • WALTZ INTO DARKNESS CL

    When a long-distance romance leads to betrayal, an obsessed man descends into madness in a chilling classic from “the supreme master of suspense” (New York Times).   When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be a...

  • The Drugstore Cowboy

    Although “The Drugstore Cowboy” (published in 1927 and unrelateld to the movie of the same name) has some crime elements, including a stolen car and a high-speed police chase, it is primarily a Jazz Age tale. Filmed, it would have made a ...

  • The Dark Oblivion

  • Nightwebs

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cornell Woolrich has published 59 books.

Cornell Woolrich does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Dark Oblivion, was published in January 2021.

The first book by Cornell Woolrich, Angels of Darkness, was published in June 1978.

No. Cornell Woolrich does not write books in series.
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