On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, "Ron Clinton" <
clinton65@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> It was quite good, as most of his short-story
collection
> tend to be...however, I'd recommend picking up a
copy of
> NIGHTWEBS over NIGHT AND FEAR. An earlier
collection,
> NIGHTWEBS is really the definitive selection of
Woolrich
> reprint-shorts published thus far (perhaps someday
some
> wise, enterprising publisher will publish a
multi-volumes
> COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF CORNELL WOOLRICH) and,
best of
> all, it was recently re-released by Orion in TPB as
part
> of their Crime Masterworks series. It's
readily
> available (and cheap) at Amazon.UK and I've seen it
here
> in the States at several bookstore chain,
including
> discounted copies at Half Price Books.
I've not been able to track down a contents page for the
Orion collection entitled Nightwebs so I can't say which
stories have been excised, but the Orion reprint contains
only *twelve* stories while the original Nightwebs collection
(Harper & Row, 1971) has sixteen stories.
ED
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