sadly this was a DNF for now.
the book is way long with way too short stories which are not my cup of tea.
thanks to the publisher for the copy!

I'm not the biggest fan of Cornell Woolrich even if I loved his style of writing and the story I read.
I wanted to read this book as it features a lot of authors I love: Joe Lansdale, Lavie Tidhar, Martin Edwards,Vaseem Khan, Neil Gaiman, MW Craven and many more.
It was a sort of magnet and I loved this stories. They're not always perfect and not all are at the same level but the level is always high and the atmosphere reminded me of the classic noir.
I think it's one of those book that should be read by a lot of persons as Woolrich is a master of noir but not a very popular author.
An excellent anthology, very interesting story and authors.
Highly recommended
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine

This was something different: a collection of 30 short stories as a tribute to Cornell Woolrich. It's published by Titan Books and I received a copy via Netgalley. It will be out on the 25th of October.

This was a collection of 30 stories by 30 different authors so not all stories appealed to me. I really like some if the stories as they grabbed my attention right from the start. Some were alright and there were also some I just didn't like and that I thought to be rather boring. Some were just too short, impossible to tell a complete the story with a complete storyline, developed characters etc in such a limited amount of words. Overall, I liked around half of all the stories. The other half could have been much better or just completely different.

3.5 stars. ARC provided through netgalley.

It's difficult to write a mystery as a short story. There just isn't the word count available to the author to plant the seeds of a really great twist. It makes sense then that my favourite stories in this collection were longer ones: New York Blues Redux, The Case of Baby X, and A Thin Slice of Heaven. What a lot of the stories did excellently was atmosphere. I could really feel the film noir inspiration in so many of them and I loved it. Unfortunately, because they were all inspired by the same body of work, a lot of them followed the same base plot. I ended up feeling bad for the authors whose work was in the second half of the collection. Their stories were as good as the ones in the first half but by that point I'd read about poisonings and double crossings and elaborate revenge so many times already it all felt a bit stale (through no fault of the authors! It's a hazard of a collection with such a narrow focus.)

I liked most of the stories in this collection but I only loved one or two. If you're a superfan of Cornell Woolrich or noir in general, I think you'd get a lot more enjoyment out of this than a casual fan like me.