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 circumstancesand, as readers, we share their spinetingling tension every step of the way. Here, collected for the first time, are four of his most nailbiting novellas.

Suspense fiction writer Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968) has been called the "Father of Noir" and the "Edgar Allan Poe of the 20th Century." His stories were the basis of such classic suspense films as Hitchcock's "Rear Window" and Truffaut's "The Bride Wore Black." Other well-known works by Woolrich (sometimes writing under the pseudonym William Irish) include "Phantom Lady," "Black Angel," "Deadline at Dawn," and "I Married a Dead Man."