Excerpt of the Week: From I Should Have Stayed Home by Horace McCoy

This week we're expanding our Horace McCoy ebook collection by publishing the following four novels: I Should Have Stayed Home, Corruption City, No Pockets in a Shroud, and Scalpel. After launching the noir classic Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye last year, we're excited to add more of McCoy's compelling work to our literary fiction list. Please enjoy the below excerpt from one of these newly released titles—I Should Have Stayed Home—about a pair of young actors trying to make it in a pitiless Hollywood.

I Should Have Stayed Home by Horace McCoy (Excerpt) by OpenRoadMedia

Horace Stanley McCoy (1897–1955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hard-boiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and postwar periods. McCoy grew up in Tennessee and Texas; after serving in the air force during World War I, he worked as a journalist, film actor, and screenplay writer. He also wrote five novels, including They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1935) and the noir classic Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948). Though underappreciated in his own time, McCoy is now recognized as a peer of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. He died in Beverly Hills, California, in 1955.