#william irish

[bookmaven]

THE BRIDE WORE BLACK [aka BEWARE THE LADY] by Cornell Woolrich (New York: Pocket, 1949)

THE BRIDE WORE BLACK (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940)

Although it was Woolrich's seventh published novel, it was the first in the noir/pulp style for which he would become known, his previous novels having been Jazz Age fiction about the wealthy and privileged.

[creepynostalgy]

Catherine Deneuve in La Sirène Du Mississipi aka Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

[paintermagazine]

Pulp! Cover Action!

[everythingsecondhand]

I Wouldn’t Be In Your Shoes, by William Irish (The American Mercury, 1943).

From eBay.

[atomic-raunch]

Cornell Woolrich standing beside some of his nightmares.

[yetihideout]

Cornell Woolrich, I Married a Dead Man - 1948

“Your story is there waiting for you, it has been waiting for you there a hundred years, long before you were born, and you cannot change a comma of it.”

Wow.

[mudwerks]

Strangler’s Serenade, by “William Irish,” aka Cornell Woolrich (Popular Library, 1952). Cover art by Rudolph Belarski.

[screamscenepodcast]

The first realistic portrayal of a serial killer in horror comes from the Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur team in THE LEOPARD MAN (1943)!

Featuring discussion of Cornell Woolrich, Jean Brooks, racism and colonialism, and of course the patriarchy, your deadicated hosts dive in and try to decipher just what this film is about.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 32:44; Discussion 47:04; Ranking 1:27:49