The Bride Wore Black (novel)
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Author | Cornell Woolrich |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Crime novel |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 1940 |
Media type | Print (Hardback and paperback) |
The Bride Wore Black is a 1940 American novel written by Cornell Woolrich. In 1967, it was adapted into a film of the same name by the French director François Truffaut.
The novel opens with a quote from Guy de Maupassant's short story, Le Horla (in English as The Diary of a Madman): "For to kill is the great law set by nature in the heart of existence! There is nothing more beautiful and honorable than killing!"