Fright

by Cornell Woolrich

Prescott Marshall, a young and ambitious Wall Street clerk, finds himself in hot water when a vengeful ex-lover named Leona Harris threatens him and his future happiness with fiancée Marjorie Harris, if he doesn't pay her on the eve of his wedding night. In a panic, he kills Leona in order to live happily with Marjorie, yet he finds himself overwrought with guilt and becomes intensely paranoid that the police will find him. He flees New York City with Marjorie, convinced that there are people following him, and begins a journey of despair, murder and lies to cover up what he’s done.

“Cornell Woolrich deserves to be discovered and rediscovered by each generation." – Ray Bradbury

Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (4 December 1903 – 25 September 1968) is one of America's best crime and noir writers, and sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish or George Hopley. He invented and mastered the genre of "Pulp-Fiction" and wrote hundreds of short stories, novellas and full length novels. One of his most famous stories is It Had to be Murder which was adapted into the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window in 1954. Check out the countless other Woolrich Novels, Novellas and Short Stories, also available as EBooks, from the Estate of Cornell Woolrich and Renaissance Literary & Talent!

243 pages, Paperback

Published August 30, 2022

About the author

Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction. The author of numerous classic novels and short stories (many of which were turned into classic films) such as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Waltz Into Darkness, and I Married a Dead Man, Woolrich began his career in the 1920s writing mainstream 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" [...] 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.

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