Recommended reading – Nightwebs

Nightwebs

Nightwebs
by Cornell Woolrich.

Short story anthology.

Includes the short story The Corpse Next Door, filmed as Union City (1980), directed by Mark Reichert.

Paperback.
Published Orion Books.
First published 1971.

ISBN 13: 9780752851709
ISBN 10: 0752851705
ASIN: 0752851705

Description:
“Possibly the finest mystery writer of the twentieth century.” – The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection.

Cornell Woolrich was a haunted man who lived a life of reclusive misery, but he was also a uniquely gifted writer who explored the classic noir themes of loneliness, despair and futility. His stories are masterpieces of psychological suspense and mystery, and they have inspired classic movies like Hitchcock's Rear Window and Truffaut's The Bride wore Black. This collection brings together twelve of his finest, most powerful and disturbing tales.

Contents: Graves for the Living; The Red Tide; The Corpse Next Door; You'll Never See Me Again; Dusk to Dawn; Murder at the Automat; Death in the Air; Mamie 'n' Me; The Screaming Laugh; One and a Half Murders; Dead on Her Feet; One Night in Barcelona; The Penny-a-Worder; The Number's Up; Too Nice a Day to Die; Life is Weird Sometimes.

On this day in movie history - Union City (1980)

Union City

directed and written by Mark Reichert,

based on the short story Union City: The Corpse Next Door by Cornell Woolrich,

was released in the United States on September 26, 1980.

Music by Chris Stein.

Cast:

Dennis Lipscomb, Debbie Harry, Terry Walsh, Cynthia Crisp, Taylor Mead, Sam McMurray, Charles Rydell, Sally MacLeod, Irina Maleeva, Everett McGill, Terina Lewis, Wolfgang Zilzer, Arthur McFarland, CCH Pounder, Asha Robinson, Todd Rolle, Rachel Raymon, Rene Raymon, Granada Stephens, Rahsaan Curry, Isha Gaddy, Tony Azito, Pat Benatar, Marie McGee, Katya Colman, Richard McGonagle, Bobby Fields, Mary Blake, Anthony Luizzi, Lenore Luizzi, Kathy Wahlin, Evan Mirand, Marcus Reichert.

Born on this day – Cornell Woolrich:

Writer

December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968

Credits:

Cover Charge (1926); Children of the Ritz (1927); Times Square (1929); A Young Man's Heart (1930); The Time of Her Life (1931);  Manhattan Love Song (1932); The Bride Wore Black (aka Beware the Lady) (1940); The Black Curtain (1941); The Black Alibi (1942); Phantom Lady (1942); The Black Angel (1943); The Black Path of Fear (1944); Deadline at Dawn (1944); Night has a Thousand Eyes (1945); Waltz into Darkness (1947); I Married a Dead Man (1948); Rendezvous in Black (1948); Fright (1950); Savage Bride (1950); Marihuana (1951); Strangler's Serenade (1951); You'll Never See Me Again (1951); Hotel Room (1958); Death is my Dancing Partner (1959); The Doom Stone (1960); Into the Night (1987); Nightmare (1956); Violence (1958); Beyond the Night (1959); The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich (1965); The Dark Side of Love (1965); Nightwebs (1971); Angels of Darkness (1978); The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich (1981); Four by Cornell Woolrich (1983); Rear Window (1984); Vampire's Honeymoon (1985); Blind Date With Death (1985); Darkness at Dawn (1985); Night and Fear (2003); Tonight Somewhere in New York (2005); Love and Night (2011); Death in the Air (2020); Senor Flatfoot (2020); All at Once, No Alice (2020); The Drugstore Cowboy (2020); Hot Water (2020); Dilemma of the Dead Lady (2020); The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus (1998); Four Novellas of Fear (2010); Speak to Me of Death (1935); The Screaming Laugh (1938); Through a Dead Man's Eye (1939); Somebody's Clothes-Somebody's Life (1958).