AN OBSESSION WITH DEATH AND DYING, VOL. 2

"Death Waits No More"(Volume Two) features stories that do not hesitate to unleash the horror of death upon you in the most explicit ways imaginable. You will find physical grotesqueries running rampant in these stories, with dead bodies and body parts playing major roles in the movement of the plot.

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: Dilemma of the Dead Lady, The Death of Me, The Night I Died, Death Wins the Sweepstakes, Dead on Her Feet, The Living Lie Down with the Dead, Death Sits in the Dentist's Chair, Through a Dead Man's Eye, And So to Death.

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genres, publishing over two dozen novels and over two hundred short stories and novellas along with those that had been unpublished at the time of his death in 1968.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.