Into the Night

“The supreme master of suspense.”- New York Times“A potent distillation of Woolrich’s darkest obsessions.”- Chicago Tribune “INTO THE NIGHT may well be the most important mystery novel of the year, a truly bravura performance by Woolrich and Block.”- West Coast Review of Books“A grim, suspenseful odyssey original conceived by writer Cornell Woolrich, a master of the genre.”- Pulp Fiction Reviews“A well-established master of suspense, the intriguing plot and the vivid narrative style make the book a splendid reading experience.”- Mario Guslandi, Gumshoe Blog“A claustrophobic pulp nightmare…required reading for fans of vintage noir.” - Kirkus Reviews

Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction. Author of numerous classic novels and short stories (many turned into classic films) such as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, and I Married a Dead Man, Woolrich began writing in the 1920s with novels that won him comparisons to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The bulk of his best-known work, however, was written in the field of crime fiction, often appearing serialized in pulp magazines or as paperback novels. Because he was prolific, he found it necessary to publish under multiple pseudonyms, including “William Irish” and “George Hopley”; it was under the latter name that he originally published Fright, and until Hard Case Crime’s edition it has never appeared under his real name. Woolrich lived a life as dark and emotionally tortured as any of his unfortunate characters and died, alone, in a seedy Manhattan hotel room following the amputation of a gangrenous leg. Upon his death, he left a bequest of one million dollars to Columbia University, to fund a scholarship for young writers.

LAWRENCE BLOCK is one of the most acclaimed and highly decorated living mystery writers, having received multiple Edgar, Shamus Awards and Maltese Falcon Awards, as well as lifetime achievement awards in the U.S., UK, and France (including being named a “Grand Master” by the Mystery Writers of America, the organization’s highest honor).

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