Some Cornell Woolrich Book News (Silent as the Grave is out) and Some Thoughts on a Few Woolrich Stories

Silent as the Grave, publisher Centipede's latest edition of Cornell Woolrich short fiction, is available now. I wrote a substantial introduction for this volume and was able to get a few particular favorite stories in here, including "Dime a Dance" and "Two Fellows in a Furnished Room." Another one I particularly love, "Mystery in Room 913, "aka "The Room with Something Wrong," was not able to be included on account of space limitation, but it will be in the next volume. The collection opens with Woolrich's autobiographical essay "Even God Felt the Depression" and my intro is title "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime Detective?," so you will get the theme of the collection. I thought it might be nice for a change to place analytical emphasis on something other than the question of the author's sexuality. I'm hoping the next volume of Woolrich short crime fiction from Centipede will take not so long as this one did (three years). I ain't getting any younger! In the meantime, here are some…