Recommended reading - Nightmare, by Cornell Woolrich (1964):

Nightmare

By Cornell Woolrich.

Filmed as Fear in the Night (1946), directed and written by Maxwell Shane.

Paperback.

Published by Dell.

Published 1964.

ASIN: B0027Q9XOO

Description:

Anthology of six short stories. Story titles: I'll Take You Home, Kathleen / aka One Last Night; Screen Test / aka Preview to Death; I O U / aka I.O.U.–One Life; Three O'Clock; Nightmare / aka And So To Death; Bequest / aka Implacable Bequest.