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

Bibliography

Cornell Woolrich’s novels written between 1940 to 1948 are considered his principal legacy. During this time, he definitively became an author of novel-length crime fiction which stand apart from his first six works, written under the influence of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Most of Woolrich’s books are out of print, and new editions have not come out because of estate issues. However, new collections of his short stories were issued in the early 1990s.

Woolrich died leaving fragments of an unfinished novel, The Loser; fragments have been published separately and also collected in Tonight, Somewhere in New York (2005).

Short Fiction [1]

1920s

“Honey Child” (College Humor, September 1926)

“Dance It Off!” (McClure’s, October 1926)

“Bread and Orchids” (College Humor, January 1927)

“Children of the Ritz” (College Humor, August-November 1927)

“The Gate Crasher” (McClure’s, August 1927)

“The Drugstore Cowboy” (McClure’s, October 1927)

“Mother and Daughter” (College Humor, August 1928)

“The Good Die Young” (College Life, October 1928)

“Hollywood Bound” (Live Girl Stories, November 1928-February 1929)

“Bluebeard’s Thirteenth Wife” (College Humor, February-March 1929)

1930

“Gay Music” (College Humor, January 1930)

“Soda-Fountain Saga” (Liberty, 11 October 1930)

“Cinderella Magic” (Illustrated Love, November 1930)

1931

“The Girl in the Moon” (College Humor, August 1931)

1933

“Orchids and Overalls” (Illustrated Love, March 1932)

“Women Are Funny” (Illustrated Love, October 1932)

1934

“Between the Acts” (Serenade, March 1934)

“Insult” (Serenade, March 1934)

“The Next Is On Me” (College Life, May-July 1934)

“Death Sits in the Dentist’s Chair” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 4 August 1934)

“The Very First Breakfast” (Serenade, June 1934)

“Walls That Hear You” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 18 August 1934)

“Preview of Death” (Dime Detective, 15 November 1934)

1935

“Murder in Wax” (Dime Detective, 1 March 1935)

“The Body Upstairs” (Dime Detective, 1 April 1935)

“Spanish-And What Eyes!” (Breezy Stories, April 1935)

“Kiss of the Cobra” (Dime Detective, 1 May 1935)

“Don’t Fool Me!” (Breezy Stories, June 1935)

“Dark Melody of Madness” (Dime Mystery, July 1935)

“Red Liberty” (Dime Detective, 1 July 1935)

“Clip-Joint” (Breezy Stories, August 1935)

“The Corpse and the Kid” (Dime Detective, September 1935)

“No Kick Coming” (Breezy Stories, October 1935)

“Flower in His Buttonhole” (Breezy Stories, November 1935)

“Annabelle Gets Across” (Breezy Stories, December 1935)

“Dead On Her Feet” (Dime Detective, December 1935)

“The Death of Me” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 7 December 1935)

“The Showboat Murders” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 14 December 1935)

“Hot Water” (Argosy, 28 December 1935)

1936

“Baal’s Daughter” (Thrilling Mystery, January 1936)

“Cigarette” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 11 January 1936)

“Change of Murder” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 25 January 1936)

“Crime on St. Catherine Street” (Argosy, 25 January 1936)

“Pick Up the Pieces” (Breezy Stories, March 1936)

“Blood In Your Eye” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 21 March 1936)

“The Clock at the Astor” (Breezy Stories, April 1936)

“The Living Lie Down with the Dead” (Dime Detective, April 1936)

“The Night Reveals” (Story, April 1936)

“The Mystery of the Blue Spot” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 4 April 1936)

“Johnny On the Spot” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 2 May 1936)

“Double Feature” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 16 May 1936)

“Nine Lives” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 20 June 1936)

“His Name Was Jack” (Breezy Stories, July 1936)

“The Dilemma of the Dead Lady” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 4 July 1936)

“Evil Eye” (Ace-High Detective, November 1936)

“Underworld Trail” (Argosy, 16 May 1936)

“One and a Half Murders” (Black Book Detective Magazine, July 1936)

“The Night I Died” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 8 August 1936)

“Murder on My Mind” (Morning After Murder) (Detective Fiction Weekly, 15 August 1936)

“Bluebeard’s Seventh Wife” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 22 August 1936)

“You Pays Your Nickel” (Argosy, 22 August 1936)

“Gun for a Gringo” (Argosy, 5 September 1936)

“Murder In the Middle of New York” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 26 September 1936)

“Death In the Air” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 10 October 1936)

“Public Toothache Number One” (Argosy, 7 November 1936)

“Afternoon of a Phony” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 14 November 1936)

“Holocaust” (Argosy, 12 December 1936)

“The Two Deaths of Barney Slabaugh” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 26 December 1936)

1937

“Heavy Sugar” (Pocket Detective, January 1937)

“Jimmy Had a Nickel” (Breezy Stories, January 1937)

“Shooting Going On” (Black Mask, January 1937)

“The Corpse Next Door” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 23 January 1937)

“Murder on the Night Boat” (Black Mask, February 1937)

“Blue Is for Bravery” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 27 February 1937)

“Speak to Me of Death” (Argosy, 27 February 1937)

“I’ll Never Play Detective Again” (Black Mask, February 1937)

“The Humming Bird Comes Home” (Pocket Detective, March 1937)

“Round Trip to the Cemetery” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 27 March 1937)

“Death in Round Three” (Pocket Detective, April 1937)

“Kidnapped!” (Breezy Stories, May 1937)

“Blind Date with Death” (Dime Detective, June 1937)

“Graves for the Living” (Dime Mystery, June 1937)

“Mimic Murder” (Black Mask, June 1937)

“Wake Up With Death” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 5 June 1937)

“Your Own Funeral” (Argosy, 19 June 1937)

“The Girl Next Door” (Breezy Stories, July 1937)

“Clever, These Americans” (Argosy, 3 July 1937)

“If I Should Die Before I Wake” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 3 July 1937)

“Vision of Murder” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 17 July 1937)

“Black Cargo” (Argosy, 31 July 1937)

“Somebody on the Phone” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 31 July 1937)

“Murder at the Automat” (Dime Detective, August 1937)

“Nellie from Zelli’s” (Black Mask, September 1937)

“Taxi Dance Murder” (Ten Detective Aces, September 1937)

“Murder Story” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 11 September 1937)

“You Bet Your Life” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 25 September 1937)

“Face Work” (Black Mask, October 1937) (“Angel_Face”)

“Goodbye, New York” (Story Magazine, October 1937)

“I Knew Her When—” (Breezy Stories, October 1937)

“Stuck With Murder” (Dime Detective, October 1937)

“The Lie” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 9 October 1937)

“Cab, Mister?” (Black Mask, November 1937)

“Waltz” (Double Detective, November 1937)

“I’m Dangerous Tonight” (All-American Fiction, November 1937)

“Oft in the Silly Night” (Argosy, 13 November 1937)

“Dusk to Dawn” (Black Mask, December 1937)

“The Gun But Not the Hand” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 4 December 1937)

“Guns, Gentleman” (Argosy, 18 December 1937)

1938

“After Dinner Story” (Black Mask, January 1938)

“You Take Ballistics” (Double Detective, January 1938)

“Death in the Yoshiwara” (The Hunted) (Argosy, 29 January 1938)

“Dime a Dance” (Black Mask, February 1938)

“Never Kick a Dick” (Double Detective, February 1938)

“Wild Bill Hiccup” (Argosy, 5 February 1938)

“Endicott’s Girl” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 19 February 1938)

“Jane Brown’s Body” (All-American Fiction, March-April 1938)

“The Towel” (Double Detective, March 1938)

“I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 12 March 1938)

“The Cape Triangular” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 16 April 1938)

“Short Order Kill” (Dime Detective, May 1938)

“Mamie ‘n’ Me” (All-American Fiction, May-June 1938)

“Mystery in Room 913” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 4 June 1938)

“Deserted!” (Sweetheart Stories, August-November 1938)

“The Woman’s Touch” (Double Detective, August 1938)

“Detective William Brown” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 10 September 1938)

“I Hereby Bequeath” (Double Detective, October 1938)

“Three O’Clock” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 1 October 1938)

“I.O.U-One Life” (Double Detective, November 1938)

“The Screaming Laugh” (Clues Detective Stories, November 1938)

1939

“The Invincible” (Breezy Stories, January 1939)

“Silhouette” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 7 January 1939)

“The Eye of Doom: I–IV” (Argosy, 14 January-4 February 1939)

“The Dog with the Wooden Leg” (Street & Smith’s Detective Story, February 1939)

“The Counterfeit Hat” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 18 February 1939)

“Those Who Kill” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 4 March 1939)

“The Case of the Killer Diller” (Dime Detective, May 1939)

“Borrowed Crime” (Black Mask, July 1939)

“Charlie Won’t Be Home Tonight” (Dime Detective, July 1939)

“The Street of Jungle Death” (Strange Detective Mysteries, July-August 1939)

“The Book That Squealed” (Street & Smith’s Detective Story, August 1939)

“Men Must Die” (Black Mask, August 1939)

“Vampire’s Honeymoon” (Horror Stories, August-September 1939)

“The Case of the Talking Eyes” (Dime Detective, September 1939)

“Crime By the Forelock” (Black Mask, September 1939)

“Collared” (Black Mask, October 1939)

“You’ll Never See Me Again” (Street & Smith’s Detective Story, November 1939)

“Through A Dead Man’s Eye” (Black Mask, December 1939)

1940

“Señor Flatfoot” (Argosy, 3 February 1940)

“Death in Duplicate” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 17 February 1940)

“All At Once, No Alice” (Argosy, 2 March 1940)

“Post Mortem” (Black Mask, April 1940)

“One Last Night” (Street & Smith’s Detective Story, May 1940]

“Meet Me by the Mannequin” (Dime Detective, June 1940)

“Finger of Doom” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 22 June 1940)

“Cinderella and the Mob” (Argosy, 22 June 1940)

“Flowers from the Dead” (Dime Detective, September 1940)

“The Red Tide” (Street & Smith’s Detective Story, September 1940)

“C-Jag” (Black Mask, October 1940)

“The Detective’s Dilemma” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 26 October 1940)

“The Riddle of the Redeemed Dips” (Dime Detective, November 1940)

“Murder Always Gathers Momentum” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 14 December 1940)

1941

“He Looked Like Murder” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 8 February 1941)

“And So to Death” (Argosy, 1 March 1941)

“U, As In Murder” (Dime Detective, March 1941)

“Of Time and Murder” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 15 March 1941)

“Cool, Calm and Collected” (Black Mask, April 1941)

“The Case of the Maladroit Manicurist” (Dime Detective, May 1941)

“Marihuana” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 3 May 1941)

“Crazy House” (Dime Detective, June 1941)

“The Fatal Footlights” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 14 June 1941)

“The Customer’s Always Right” (Detective Tales, July 1941)

“Murder at Mother’s Knee” (Dime Detective, October 1941)

1942

“It Had to Be Murder” (Dime Detective, February 1942)

“Dormant Account” (Black Mask, May 1942)

“Phantom Alibi” (Detective Fiction Magazine, May-October 1942)

“Three Kills for One” (Black Mask, July 1942) (“Two Murders, One Crime”)

“Implacable Bequest” (Detective Tales, September 1942)

“Orphan Ice” (Dime Detective, September 1942)

“Havana Night” (Flynn’s Detective Magazine, December 1942)

“The Hopeless Defense of Mrs. Dellford” (Dime Detective, December 1942)

1943

“The Body in Grant’s Tomb” (Dime Detective, January 1943)

“The Death Stone” (Flynn’s Detective Fiction Magazine, February 1943)

“If the Dead Could Talk” (Black Mask, February 1943)

“The Death Rose” (Baffling Detective Mysteries, March 1943)

“If the Shoe Fits” (Dime Detective, March 1943)

“The Death Diary” (Flynn’s Detective Fiction Magazine, April 1943)

“Mind Over Murder” (Dime Detective, May 1943)

“Come Witness My Murder” (Flynn’s Detective Fiction Magazine, August 1943)

“Leg Man” (Dime Detective, August 1943)

“Death on Delivery” (Dime Detective, September 1943)

“They Call Me Patrice” (Today’s Woman, 1943)

1944

“An Apple a Day” (After-Dinner Story, 1944)

“What the Well Dressed Corpse Will Wear” (Dime Detective, March 1944) (“Fur Jacket”)

“Picture Frame” (Black Mask, July 1944)

1945 and on

“The Girl Who Married Royalty” (Good Housekeeping, March 1945)

“Dipped In Blood” (Street & Smith’s Detective Story, April 1945)

“Four Bars of Yankee Doodle” (Mystery Book Magazine, August 1945])

“The Man Upstairs” (Mystery Book Magazine, August 1945)

“Silent as the Grave” (Mystery Book Magazine, November 1945)

“The Light in the Window” (Mystery Book Magazine, April 1946)

“They Call Me Patrice” (Today’s Woman, April 1946)

“The Boy Cried Murder” (Mystery Book Magazine, March 1947)

“Death Escapes the Eye” (Murder, Obliquely) (Shadow Mystery Magazine, April-May 1947)

“One Night in Barcelona” (Mystery Book Magazine, Fall 1947)

“Death Between Dances” (Shadow Mystery Magazine, December 1947-January 1948)

“The Blue Ribbon” (The Blue Ribbon, 1949)

“Husband” (The Blue Ribbon, 1949)

“The Moon of Montezuma” (Fantastic, November-December 1952)

“Debt of Honor” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, October 1954)

“The Black Bargain” (The Night of February 17, 1924) (Justice, January 1956)

“The Night of June 20, 1896” (Hotel Room, 1958)

“The Night of April 6, 1917” (Hotel Room, 1958)

“The Night of November 11, 1918” (Hotel Room, 1958)

“The Night of October 24, 1929” (Hotel Room, 1958)

“The Night of...” (Hotel Room, 1958)

“The Night of September 30, 1957” (Hotel Room, 1958)

“The Penny-a-Worder” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September 1958) (“A Penny for Your Thoughts”)

“Somebody’s Clothes — Somebody’s Life” (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1958) (“Somebody Else’s Life”)

“The Number’s Up” (Beyond the Night, 1959)

“Blonde Beauty Slain” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March 1959)

“Money Talks” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January 1962)

“One Drop of Blood” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, April 1962)

“The Poker Player’s Wife” (The Saint Mystery Magazine, October 1962)

“Story to be Whispered” (The Saint Mystery Magazine, May 1963)

“Working is for Fools” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March 1964)

“Steps... Coming Near” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, April 1964)

“When Love Turns” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 1964) (“Je t’Aime”)

“Murder After Death” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, December 1964)

“The Clean Fight” (The Dark Side of Love, 1965)

“I’m Ashamed” (The Dark Side of Love, 1965)

“Too Nice a Day to Die” (The Dark Side of Love, 1965)

“The Idol with the Clay Bottom” (The Dark Side of Love, 1965)

“It Only Takes a Minute to Die” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 1966)

“Mannequin” (The Saint Magazine, October 1966)

“Divorce-New York Style” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June-July 1967)

“Intent to Kill” (The Saint Magazine, September 1967)

“The Release” (With Malice Toward All, 1968)

“Warrant of Arrest” (Escapade, April 1968)

“For the Rest of Her Life” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May 1968)

“New York Blues” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, December 1970)

“Life is Weird Sometimes...” (Nightwebs, 1971)

“The Talent” (Saturday Evening Post, Summer 1971)

“Even God Felt the Depression” (Blues of a Lifetime, 1991)

“The Poor Girl” (Blues of a Lifetime, 1991)

SHORT FICTION COLLECTIONS

As Cornell Woolrich

Nightmare (1956)

Violence (1958)

Hotel Room (1958)

Beyond the Night (1959)

The Dark Side of Love (1964)

The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich (1965)

Nightwebs (1971)

Angels of Darkness (1978)

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich (1981)

Darkness at Dawn (1985)

Vampire’s Honeymoon (1985)

Blind Date with Death (1985)

Night and Fear (1995)

Tonight, Somewhere in New York (2005)

Love and Night: Unknown Stories (2007)

Four Novellas of Fear (2010)

As William Irish

I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (1943)

After Dinner Story (1944)

If I Should Die Before I Wake (1946)

Borrowed Crime (1946)

The Dancing Detective (1946)

Dead Man Blues (1948)

The Blue Ribbon (1949)

Six Nights of Mystery (1950)

Eyes That Watch You (1952)

Bluebeard’s Seventh Wife (1952)

NOVELS

As Cornell Woolrich

Cover Charge (1926)

Children of the Ritz (1927)

Times Square (1929)

A Young Man’s Heart (1930)

The Time of Her Life (1931)

Manhattan Love Song (1932)

The Bride Wore Black (1940)

The Black Curtain (1941)

Black Alibi (1942)

The Black Angel (1943) [based on his 1935 story “Murder in Wax”]

The Black Path of Fear (1944)

Rendezvous in Black (1948)

Savage Bride (1950)

You’ll Never See Me Again (1951)

Hotel Room (1958)

Death is My Dancing Partner (1959)

The Doom Stone (1960) [previously serialized in Argosy, 1939]

Into the Night (1987) [manuscript completed by Lawrence Block]

As William Irish

Marihuana (1941)

Phantom Lady (1942)

After Dinner Story (1944)

Deadline at Dawn (1944)

Waltz into Darkness (1947)

I Married a Dead Man (1948)

Strangler’s Serenade (1951)

As George Hopley

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945)

Fright (1950)

Films Based on Woolrich works

Convicted (1938) (story Face Work)

Street of Chance (1942) (novel The Black Curtain)

The Leopard Man (1943) (novel Black Alibi)

Phantom Lady (1944) (novel)

The Mark of the Whistler (1944) (story Dormant Account)

Deadline at Dawn (1946) (novel)

Black Angel (1946) (novel)

The Chase (1946) (novel The Black Path of Fear)

Fall Guy (1947) (story Cocaine)

The Guilty (1947) (story He Looked Like Murder)

Fear in the Night (1947) (story Nightmare)

The Return of the Whistler (1948) (story All at Once, No Alice)

I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (1948) (story)

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) (novel)

The Window (1949) (story The Boy Cried Murder)

No Man of Her Own (1950) (novel I Married a Dead Man)

El Pendiente (1951) (story The Death Stone)

Si muero antes de despertar (1952) (story If I Should Die Before I Wake)

No abras nunca esa puerta (1952)

(stories: Somebody on the Phone/Humming Bird Comes Home)

Rear Window (1954) (story It Had to Be Murder)

Rear Window (1998) (story It Had to Be Murder)

Obsession (1954) (story Silent as the Grave)

Nightmare (1956) (story)

The Bride Wore Black (1968) (novel)

Mississippi Mermaid (1969) (novel Waltz Into Darkness)

Kati Patang (1970) (novel I Married a Dead Man)

Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972) (novel Rendezvous in Black)

Union City (1980) (story The Corpse Next Door)

I Married a Shadow (1983) (novel I Married a Dead Man)

Cloak & Dagger (1984) (story The Boy Who Cried Murder)

Mrs. Winterbourne (1996) (story I Married a Dead Man)

Original Sin (2001) (novel Waltz Into Darkness)

Four O’Clock (2006) (story Three O’Clock)