Black is the Night
Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich
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Publisher Description
A gritty and thrilling anthology of 30 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich, author of 'Rear Window' that inspired Alfred Hitchock's classic film.
Featuring Kim Newman, James Sallis, A.K. Benedict, USA Today-bestseller Samantha Lee Howe, Joe R. Lansdale and many more.
This anthology of exclusive new short stories offers tribute to the master of the pulp era – Cornell Woolrich, who stands with Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and Dashiell Hammett as a legend in the genre.
Enter a world of vengeful brides and black widows, where cold-blooded killers watch from every window and every sin shall be paid for, no matter how deep you bury them. See the chilling fate of a young woman, and the darkness in every family, in Joe R. Lansdale’s “Missing Sister”, the cold, calculating mind of an ambitious wife and her cheating husband in Samantha Lee Howe’s “Trophy Wife”, a reunion dinner ripped apart by conspiracies and violence in Susi Holliday’s “The Invitation”, and the tight-knit family of a New York dive bar explode into violence in William Boyle’s “New York Blues Redux”.
Hope that the long, dark night will keep your sins and secrets.
FEATURING
CHARLES ARDAI
BRANDON BARROWS
A. K. BENEDICT
WILLIAM BOYLE
M. W. CRAVEN
MASON CROSS
MAX DÉCHARNÉ
O’NEIL DE NOUX
MARTIN EDWARDS
PAUL DI FILIPPO
JAMES GRADY
SUSI HOLLIDAY
SAMANTHA LEE HOWE
MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI
VASEEM KHAN
JOEL LANE
JOE R. LANSDALE
BARRY N. MALZBERG
NICK MAMATAS
WARREN MOORE
DONNA MOORE
TARA MOSS
KIM NEWMAN
ANA TERESA PEREIRA
BILL PRONZINI
DAVID QUANTICK
KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH
JAMES SALLIS
LAVIE TIDHAR
JOSEPH S. WALKER
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The 30 stories in this superior anthology from Jakubowski (Invisible Blood) capture the feel of Woolrich's iconic noir fiction. In a brief introduction, "Why Cornell Woolrich Matters," Neil Gaiman aptly observes: "The world Cornell Woolrich painted for us with his words is a world in which we will always be disappointed... in which our hopes and our dreams burn brightly, but in their burning they only make the shadows darker." Highlights include James Grady's "Eyes Without a Face," in which a man spies on an attractive female neighbor via a hacked security feed while also watching Hitchcock's Rear Window, which was based on a Woolrich story. That classic tale also inspired another standout, Kim Newman's "Black Window," about a man's frantic attempts to get the police to believe he witnessed a matricide. Charles Ardai, the founder of Hard Case Crime, distinguishes himself with "Sleep! Sleep! Beauty Bright," about a man's search for the person who put his wife into a coma. The variations on Woolrich's themes, even when set in the present day, resonate. This is a welcome companion to In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper, edited by Lawrence Block.
