About

Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. More film noir screenplays were adapted from works by Woolrich than any other crime novelist, and many of his stories were adapted during the 1940s for Suspense and other dramatic radio programs. Hroughout his writing career he produced a reported 26 novels/novellas and hundreds of short stories.

Holding on to a loved one can be difficult, but certainly not as weird and treacherous as in this quartet of Cornell Woolrich novellas set in the mid-1930s It's a time of great incongruities, physical anguish of the Great Depression, lighthearted dancing to the rhythms of swing; near-legendary bank robbers, daredevil long-distance airplane pilots; head bashing of union members, air-conditioned comfort for movie goers oolrich takes this milieu, adds an overlay of the supernatural, and places his protagonists in grotesque, untenable situations involving their lives and souls.

Here is the eerie world of voodoo, Frankenstein-style reincarnation, live burial, and macabre garments, a mixture of cold sweat-producing dilemmas, where the characters find it near-impossible to separate the real from the unreal This is a handsome hardcover, 300 copies, 5⅝ × 9 inches, bound in cloth with color inset on the front board, fine dustjacket on Mohawk Carnival paper, ribbon marker, full color endpapers and interiors, old book covers, top-edge stain, and a special four-page tipped-in signature plate. edition information.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 copies.
• Introduction by Bill Pronzini.
• All copies signed by Bill Pronzini, Matt Mahurin, and Jacob McMurray.
• Sewn binding, rounded back, ribbon marker, head and tail bands, printed endpapers, top-edge stain, and other extras.

External Links

• Dark Melody of Madness. Centipede Press page for Dark Melody of Madness
• Cornell Woolrich (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Cornell Woolrich