A Treasury of Stories (Collection of novelettes and short stories)

Cornell Woolrich A Treasury of Stories

I was only trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me.

I was only trying to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone. To stay in the light, to be with the living a little while past my time.

— Cornell Woolrich