"The Screaming Mimi" (which became a 1958 movie starring Anita Ekberg and Gypsy Rose Lee, and directed by Gerd Oswald, who also directed the "Fun and Games" episode of "The Outer Limits", the plot of which was similar to Brown's short story "Arena"), and "The Far Cry" are noir suspense novels reminiscent of the work of Cornell Woolrich.