AN OBSESSION WITH DEATH AND DYING, VOL. 1

"Death Lies in Wait"(Volume One) features stories that will transport you to another place, dazzle you with performances or bewitch you with some wild or supernatural force before unleashing the horror of death upon you. The glitter and gold can only hide death for so long -- in a Woolrich story, death always lies in wait.

An 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. We are resurrecting these thrillingly gruesome tales and reintroducing them to a new generation of noir, horror and mystery fans. Each story within these volumes contains some variant of the words "death" or "dying" in their titles, of which there are over 40 in the extensive pantheon of Woolrich's short fiction. The idea of death was a constant existential thundercloud that loomed over this tortured writer's head. He had a fascination with it, a lifelong obsession, one that bled through into his writing and motivated his characters to do some truly horrifying things.

STORIES INCLUDE: If the Dead Could Talk, Death at the Burlesque, Flowers from the Dead, Preview of Death, The Street of Jungle Death, Speak to Me of Death, A Death is Caused, Men Must Die, Death in the Yoshiwara, The Death Rose.

The fiction of Cornell Woolrich is rife with the kind of psychological tension audiences have always craved. He has been called the foremost suspense writer of the 20th century, the Edgar Allan Poe of his era. He was a prolific writer in the crime, horror, noir and mystery genres, publishing over two dozen novels and over two hundred short stories and novellas along with those that had been unpublished at the time of his death in 1968. One of the most famous film adaptations aside from Rear Window was directed by François Truffaut, whose French new wave interpretation of The Bride Wore Black, entitled La Mariee Etait en Noir, premiered in 1968, the year Woolrich died. Dozens of his short stories were adapted for popular network radio and television show episodes including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Suspense and Molle Mystery Theatre.