Alfred Hitchcock's
Mystery Books
(To order eMail CHAFIN@COMCAST.NET)
In
1957, publishers Simon and Schuster approached Alfred
Hitchcock, an avid reader of
horror and suspense tales, about compiling a book of short stories to be
"branded" with the title of his popular television series, Alfred
Hitchcock Presents. Their proposal was accepted and the book was a
resounding success. Various additional publishers entered the fray,
including Random House, Dell, Davis Publications, and H.S.D. More than 100
Alfred Hitchcock mystery books followed during the next forty plus years. Actually,
several books in this collection predated this time frame!
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Alfred Hitchcock's
Anthology #2 (Tales
To Take Your Breath Away) M93
Edited
by Eleanor
Sullivan.
This is the second in the series of anthologies of stories from Alfred
Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. The even-numbered volumes in the series
will consist of stories the editors of AHMM believe to be the best
published in the magazine the previous year. 29 tales in all, and each of
them calculated to leave you breathless - the total collection rife with the
rogues and roguishness you've come to expect from the Master of Suspense.
The Dial Press, © 1976, 1977 Davis Publications. 373 pages.
Contributing writers include Robert S. Aldrich, William
Bankier, Robert
Bloch, Lawrence Block, William Brittain, Duffy Carpenter, John
Coyne, Nelson DeMille, Robert Edward Eckels, Bruce M. Fisher, Brian Garfield,
Everett Greenbaum, Joyce Harrington, Edward D. Hoch, John Lutz, Mick
Mahoney, Clayton Matthews, Carroll Mayers, Vincent McConnor, James McKimmey,
Francis M. Nevins, Jr., Bill Pronzini, Jack Ritchie, Isak
Romun,
Jeffry Scott, Nedra Tyre, Stephen Wasylyk, Edward Wellen, Robert W. Wells.
BUY IT M93HB1 Hard Cover, book excellent, DJ very good. $15. M93HB2 Hard Cover, book excellent, DJ fair. $12.
Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology
#3 Tales To Make Your Blood
Run Cold. M39B
Edited by Eleanor Sullivan. (Anthology
#3, Fall-Winter
1978). © 1978 Davis Publications. 352 pages. 35
Chillers.
From the
Introduction by Mr. H.: "Here is the third volume in this series of Alfred
Hitchcock's anthologies. It is entitled "Tales
To Make Your Blood Run Cold" and it consists of stories
culled from twenty years of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Included are 35 tantalizing stories, each one chock full of suspense and
surprise. You'll find crime, organized and disorganized; executions, legal and
otherwise; manhunts, con games, love-hate triangles, psychopaths, suspicious
hitchhikers, smugglers, and storms. Age has not tarnished these delightful
offerings - they are still as fresh and sparkling as when originally published.
So lean back, turn the lights down low, and snuggle down under the covers. It is
a collection, remember, that is calculated to make your blood run
cold." Abetting writers include Harold R. Daniels, Nedra
Tyre, Allen Kim Lang, Michael Bruen, Robert Colby, Al
Nussbaum, Ron Goulart, Paul W. Fairman, C.
B. Gilford, Donald Honig, Mann Rubin, Henry Slesar,
Carroll Mayers, Michael Zuroy, Edward D. Hoch,
Robert Edmond Alter, Carl Marcus, James Holding, Pauline
C. Smith, Talmage
Powell, Joseph Payne Brennan, Avram Davidson, Guy
Cullingford, Mike Brett, Hilda Cushing,
Harold Dutch, Herbert Brean, Lloyd Biggle, Jr.,
Rufus King, Richard M. Ellis, E. X. Ferrars, Jack Ritchie,
Bryce Walton, John Lutz, Joseph
Csida.
Alfred Hitchcock's
Anthology #4 M39C
Edited by Eleanor Sullivan. (Anthology
#4, Spring-Summer 1979). © 1978 Davis Publications. 348
pages. 26 stories + a short novel, The Gr
aveyard
Shift, by William P. McGivern. From the Introduction by Alfred
Hitchcock: "This latest anthology consists of 26 gripping
stories by some of the finest authors ever published in AHMM, including
the story by Jack Ritchie
that was later made into the wonderfully comic movie, A
New Leaf, with Elaine May and Walter Matthau. And, as a bonus,
a short novel by the distinguished writer of police procedurals, William P.
McGivern - 27 tales in all, each of them calculated to startle, shock, dismay,
and appall you in the manner you've come to expect from Alfred Hitchcock's
Mystery Magazine." Contributing writers include
Donald E Westlake, James Holding, Edward
D Hoch, August Derleth, Dan J Marlowe, Jonathan Craig, Libby MacCall,
Bill Pronzini, Ron Goulart, Kate Wilhelm, Lawrence Block,
Arthur Porges, Henry Slesar,
Jack Ritchie, James M. Ullman, Ross Brown, Nedra
Tyre, Lawrence Treat, Patrick O'Keeffe, Frank
Sisk, John Lutz, Theodore Mathieson, Helen Kasson, Hillary
Waugh, Charles Boeckman, Donald Olson.
Alfred Hitchcock's
Anthology #6 M40
Edited by Eleanor
Sullivan. (Anthology #6,
Spring - Summer 1980). © 1979 Davis Publications. 350 pages. 30
stories. From the introduction by Editor Eleanor Sullivan; "Fair
warning. Even if you are naturally cautious it would be remiss of me not to
advise
prudence as you proceed from story to story in this new
death-and-defiance-filled anthology. If you heed this admonition, your
discretion will be rewarded - with shock-absorbing revelations and dark
insights. So do go chary into this good collection and you will rage against the
dying of your reading light." Contributing writers include Edward
D. Hoch, Mary Barrett, Henry Slesar,
Oscar Schisgall, Pauline C. Smith,
Edward Wellen, C. B. Gilford, Boyden
Deal, Donald E. Westlake, Bill Pronzini,
Clayton Matthews, Patricia
Matthews, John Lutz, Arthur Gordon,
Stephen Wasylyk, Frank Sisk, Margaret B. Maron,
Betty Ren Wright, Donald Olson, Jacques Gillies, Lawrence
Block, Jack Ritchie, Helen Nielsen, Talmage
Powell, Richard Deming, Ron Goulart, Dan
J. Marlowe, James Holding, Margaret Chenoweth,
Charlotte Edwards.
Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology
#7 M40B
Edited by Eleanor Sullivan. (Anthology
#7, Fall-Winter 1980). © 1980 Davis Publications. 352 pages.
27 stories. From the Foreword by Mr. Hitchcock: "In reading
this seventh anthology in the new series of Alfred Hitchcock anthologies you
will
undoubtedly experience some
inner disquietude, a certain lack of ease in your usual, normal surroundings.
The attitudes and actions of many of the so-called human beings you will
encounter in these pages will make you look at spouse and sibling, stranger and
friend with unaccustomed suspicion and dread. This reaction from you was
carefully planned, in cold blood, with malice afrethought, by the 28 authors who
brought these characters to such ferocious, passionate, sinister life. I confess
to my role in the scheme with no small elation. But that shouldn't surprise you.
No one could ever accuse me of saying, Never fear, Alfred Hitchcock is
here." Contributing writers include Edward
D. Hoch, Helen Nielsen, Patrick O'Keeffe, Donald
Honig, Talmage Powell,
Henry Slesar, Bryce Walton, Donald Olson, Barry N.
Malzberg, Robert McKay, Jack Ritchie, Theodore
Pratt, Robert Colby, Charlotte Edwards, Dan J.
Marlowe, James M. Ullman, Raymond E. Banks, Fletcher
Flora, Pauline C. Smith, Jeff Heller,
William Link & Richard Levinson, Richard Stark,
Mary Braund, Jack Sharkey, Al
Nussbaum, F. J. Kelly, Ed McBain.
Alfred Hitchcock's
Anthology #10 M41
Edited by
Eleanor Sullivan. (Anthology
#10, Spring - Summer 1982). © 1981 Davis Publications. 349
pages. 26 stories. From the Introduction by Editor Eleanor
Sullivan; "Half of the stories in this collection were written by
prize-winning mystery writers - but all of the stories were selected because
they have won high marks of approval from readers of Alfred
Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine."
Contributing writers include Edward D. Hoch,
Stephen Wasylyk, Babs H. Deal, Stewart Pierce
Brown, Donald Honig, Irwin Porges, Lawrence
Block, Nedra Tyre, Jules Archer, Frank Sisk,
Henry Slesar, Don Tothe, Jack
Ritchie, Patrick O'Keeffe, Stephen Marlowe, William
Link & Richard Levinson, Robert
Colby, Clayton Matthews, Ron Goulart, Lawrence
Treat, Richard Deming, John Lutz, Harold
Q. Masur, James Holding, Clark Howard, William
Bankier.
Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology
#11 M41B
Edited by Cathleen Jordan. (Anthology
#11,
Fall-Winter
1982). © 1982 Davis Publications. 348 pages. "27
Bloodchilling stories of Mystery and Crime." From the Introduction by
editor Cathleen Jordan: "The first issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery
Magazine, from whose archives all but one of the stories included here
were taken, was published in December, 1956. Most of the writers
represented here are very practiced hands at the mystery story business, and
most, as well, have done numerous stories for AHMM. And we hope
that, in the best Hitchcock custom the whole collection will keep you very
scared and very entertained. Contributing writers include Pauline
C. Smith, Jack Ritchie, Jaime Sandaval,
Charles W. Runyon, Michael Collins, W. L. Heath,
Clark Howard, Richard Deming, James
Holding, Bill Pronzini, Stephen Wasylyk,
Arthur Porges, Reynold Junker, Norma Schier, Jonathan
Craig, Douglas Farr, Edward D. Hoch, Lee
Chisholm, Maeva Park, Elijah Ellis, Fletcher
Flora, Ed Lacy, Georges Carousso, Thomasina Weber, Dan
J. Marlowe, James McKimmey, Jr, W. E. Dan Ross.
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Alfred Hitchcock's
Anthology #12 (Fear)
M57 Edited by Cathleen Jordan, with Gail
Hayden. (Anthology #12,
1982). © 1982 Davis Publications. 348 pages. From the Introduction
by The Editor - "The collection of stories brought together in this volume
is, we think, a special one. It brings together a wide variety of
very
good authors, for one thing - from Conan Doyle to Isaac Asimov to Jack Ritchie,
winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short
Story of 1981. And for another, it shows the extraordinary range of the mystery
story. Crime can, it seems, be written about in almost any manner. Jack
Ritchie's "Play a Game of Cyanide" is a light and playful
story, as its title indicates. Helen Mcloy's "Chinoiserie" is
full of dreams from a vanished China. And Damon Knight's "Anachron"
combines the sense of past, present, and future in so special and unusual a way
that they almost become one." Contributing writers include
Donald Honig, Helen McCloy, Isaac Asimov,
Randall Garrett, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Erle Stanley
Gardner, M. R. James, Clark Howard, Damon Knight, Elijah Ellis, W. T.
Quick, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack
Ritchie, Larry Niven, Algernon Blackwood, August
Derleth, James Holding, Frederick Pohl & C.
M. Kornbluth, Tom Godwin. Feast!
Alfred Hitchcock's
Anthology #13 (Death-Reach) M54
Edited by Cathleen
Jordan. (Anthology #13,
1983). 27 Stories of Murder and Mystery. © 1982
Davis Publications.
348 pages. From the Introduction by
Editor Cathleen Jordan; "Edgar
Allan Poe obviously started something with The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
For upwards of a century and a half now, fictional bodies have been turning up
across the
country (and in a good many others, England being especially notable in that
regard), in libraries and drawing rooms and at the foot of cellar steps,
dropping past us out of windows and reaching out for our unwary feed in the dark
corners of nighttime back yards. They've turned up in swimming pools and
fishponds, in their own snug beds where they've just pretended to die peaceful
deaths, and, startlingly, at the dinner table where there's usually something
appallingly wrong with the wine. All of which makes for some excellent reading.
And the authors of the stories in this volume have conjured up some especially
ingenious tales of mystery and mystery-solving, and of that long reach of
death. Contributing writers include Michael Collins, Stanley
Abbott, Phil Davis, William Jeffrey, James Holding,
George Antonich, Hal Ellson, Allen Lang, James Cross, Robert Turner, Al
Nussbaum, Fletcher Flora, Bryce Walton,
Edwin P. Hicks, Borden Deal, Helen Nielsen, Edward
D. Hoch, Robert Alan Blair, Bill Pronzini,
Donald Honig, Richard Hardwick, Jack
Ritchie, Donald Martin, Douglas Campbell, George
Grover Kipp, John Crowe, Michael Van De Ven.
Alfred Hitchcock's
Anthology #17 (Mortal
Errors) M71
Edited by Cathleen Jordan.
(Anthology #17, Spring, 1984). 30
Stories of Mystery & Detection. © 1983 Davis Publications. 348
pages. From the editor's Introduction - "Wherever the mystery story
abounds, there also lie catalogued some at least of the sins
flesh is heir to.
And if they're all pretty unsettling, some are worse than others (i.e., murder),
with particularly dire consequences for the victim, who is the recipient of a
mortal error indeed! But if our mortal
nature - in both senses - leads to trouble (and if, thereby, the murder mystery
has proliferated among us), it has also led to some good story telling, of the
sort Alfred Hitchcock was especially alert to. So have been the editors of Alfred
Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine over the
years, and nearly all the stories that follow come from its files. Stories of
error of every description, as long as it's criminous - and stories that just
naturally also involve puzzles, suspense, unexpected turnings, and
ingenious
investigation. All in all, 30 stories to keep you guessing, and perhaps up a bit
later than you'd meant to be. But that, we'll hope, is all right, for at least
here, on the whole, the errors are deciphered, the puzzles solved, mortality
somehow taken cognizance of. And sometimes - best of all -
overruled." Abetting contributors include Gil Brewer, William
Brittain, Jonathan Craig, Jamie Ellis,
Leo R. Ellis, Isabel Field, Fletcher Flora, W.
Sherwood Hartman, Edward D. Hoch, James
Holding, Donald Honig, Clark
Howard, William Jeffrey, George Kipp, William Link & Richard
Levinson, John Lutz, Dan J. Marlowe, Harold
Q. Masur, Al Nussbaum,
Donald Olson, Bill Pronzini, Jack
Ritchie, Mark Sadler, Henry Slesar,
Pauline C. Smith, Wyc Toole, Nedra Tyre, Max Van
Derveer, Stephen Wasylyk, Edward Wellen.
Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology
#19 (Grave
Suspicions) M61
Edited by Cathleen
Jordan. (Anthology #19,
Winter, 1984). 28 Short Stories of Crime & Detection. ©
1984
Davis Publications. 347 pages. From
the Introduction by the editor -
"The 28 short stories collected here have all been taken from the files of Alfred
Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and all 28, naturally, have to do
with crime - murder, mostly.
They demonstrate the proposition that almost anything - from chartering a boat
on the Indian Ocean to attending a masquerade party to a miraculous recovery
from brain surgery - can be perilous indeed. Grave Suspicions, in short,
seem to be in order at every turn in these pages. About the only thing you can
be sure of, as a matter of fact, is that you will be kept guessing - and that
every story has its own set of surprises, conjured up for you by an outstanding
band of mystery story tellers (who are very good at solving puzzles, too). They
include Thomasina Weber, William M. Stephens,
Robert Edmond Alter, Helen Nielsen, Jack
Ritchie, Neil M. Clark, Henry Slesar, Talmage
Powell, Ed Dumonte, Frank Sisk, Jack
Morrison, George C. Chesbro, Betty Ren Wright,
Donald Olson, Jonathan Craig, C. B. Gilford,
Pauline C. Smith, Carroll Mayers, Stephen Wasylyk,
Edward Wellen, Nora Caplan, Bill Pronzini, James
Holding, Donald Honig, John Lutz, Arthur
Porges, Leo P. Kelley, Eleanor Boylan.
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Alfred
Hitchcock's Anthology #22 (Mystery By The Tale)
M77 (Anthology
#22/Fall 1986). Edited by Cathleen
Jordan. 28 Short Stories of Mystery and Suspense. ©
1986
Davis Publications. 374 pages. "When
we
set out to collect the stories for this anthology, I Started Most Innocently
(O.H. Leslie). But in The Small Hours
(Ernest Savage) of the night - A Woman's Work Is
Never Done (Helen Fislar
Brooks) - we found that You Can Die Laughing (Robert
Arthur). To Make My Death Bed (Babs H. Deal)
wasn't exactly what we had in mind at that moment, but then we rapidly became
involved in Meditations Upon A Murder (Donald
Martin) as well as in ghostly doings, though some of that was a False
Alarm (Ann Morice).
Next in Line (Jack Ritchie) turned out to be
Understanding Electricity (John Lutz) -
reading mysteries late at night may be fun but it's definitely no Parlor Game
(Gary Brandner). With morning, though, came the Flight
of the Sparrow (Gerald Tomlinson), bright Thin
Air (Bull Bronzini), and The Letter
Carrier (Kathryn Gottlieb). Taking the stories
- Typed for Murder (Nedra Tyre) - out of Drawer
14 (Talmage Powell), we left Home Ground
(A.F. Oreshnik) and set out for the office via
subway, thereby cleverly avoiding Murder on the Edinburgh-London Express
(John H. Dirckx). We didn't see The Fanatical
Ford (Arthur Porges) anywhere on our street.
Passing some Stately Ruins (Frank Sisk), but
no A Grave on the Indragiri (Alvin S. Fick),
we-the Last of the Big-Time Spenders (Duffy Carpenter)-bought
a token and on the way to town contemplated Martha Myers, Movie Star (Raymond
Mason), and Albert and the Amateurs (Len
Gray), who were discussing The World According to Uncle Albert
(Penelope Wallace); it
seemed he lived by The Unstained Code (George Grover
Kipp). As you can tell, having A Mystery by the Tale can be
somewhat unnerving experience, but that's the nature, as everyone knows, of
Alfred Hitchcock's work (Beware: Dangerous Man - C.B.
Gilford). Nonetheless, we hope you'll take A Little Time
Off (Stephen Wasylyk) to enjoy these stories
from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine as much as we did, and that
you'll be Happy as a Harp Song (Pauline C. Smith)!"
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Alfred Hitchcock's
Anthology #24 (The
Shadow of Silence) M82
Edited by Cathleen
Jordan. (Anthology #24,
Fall / Winter 1987). © 1987 Davis Publications. 348 pages. "I
saw old Autumn in the misty morn Standing shadowless like silence, listening To
silence." - Thomas Hood. From the Introduction by Editor Cathleen
Jordan; "28 stories are collected in this volume - 28 occasions for
nefarious activity by the likes of thieves and scoundrels, murderers and
mischief-makers generally. Unsettling little
surprises come in the mail; mystifying phone calls are made as well as received;
corpses converse; and reality is tampered with. In these stories, brought
together as is our custom from the files of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery
Magazine, you wil encounter a corner of Paris and of rural England; a tunnel
to freedom; an island packed with sheriffs; a mansion of imitation ghosts; and a
dream steam room (or was it?). You'll meet a boy with a magic tree; a salesman
who makes a shoplifter buy up a storm; a barber with a past; a dog who follows a
cat; and a millionaire's daughter (or was she?). It's enough to keep a person
guessing - or so we hope. Not to mention entertained." Contributors
to the guesswork include Vincent McConnor, Richard Hardwick, Thomas M.
Disch, Stephen Wasylyk, Fletcher Flora, Michael
Zuroy, Charles Einstein, Leo R. Ellis, James
Holding, Charles McIntosh, Miel Tanburn,
Bryce Walton, Anthony Marsh, Ray T. Davis,
Pauline C. Smith, Clayton Matthews,
Elijah Ellis, Jack Webb, Bill Pronzini,
James McKimmey, John Lutz, Mary Linn Roby, August
Derleth, Dick Ellis, Max Van Derveer, Jack
Ritchie, Donald E. Westlake, C.
B. Gilford.
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Alfred Hitchcock's
Anthology #26 (Shrouds
and Pockets) M83
Edited by Cathleen
Jordan. (Anthology #26,
Winter 1988). 26 short stories of Mystery and Detection, all of which
previously appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
© 1988 by Davis Publications. 348 pages. Word of Warning from Editor
Cathleen Jordan; "Pockets: Lined by insurance fraud, house burglary,
confidence games, supermarket holdups, forgery, drug smuggling, spouse murder,
false representation, price-gouging,
counterfeiting. More methods are doubtless possible. Lined by silk, cotton,
denim, and artificial fabrics. Lined by honest work, chicanery, and metaphor.
Sometimes pockets have holes; this is well known. And sometimes they aren't
there. Shrouds: Not lined, so far as we know. Often produced
by desire for revenge, jealousy, bigotry and stupidity, desire for more for
pockets, and fear of exposure. By-product: When the cloth of
either is imaginary, the fabric of fun." Contributing writers
include Janet Biery, John C. Boland, Caryl
Brahms & Ned Sherrin, Ron Butler, Barbara Callahan,
Herschel Cozine, Isabel Langis Cusack, Richard Deming,
Alvin S. Fick, Joe L. Hensley, Edward D. Hoch, John
Lutz, Dana Lyon, Vincent McConnor, Arthur Moore,
Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., Arthur Porges, Bill
Pronzini, Jack Ritchie, Ernest Savage, Frank
Sisk, Kay Nolte Smith, Dick Stodghill,
Robert Twohy, Lawrence Treat & Richard Plotz,
James Michael Ullman, Stephen Wasylyk, Edward Wellen, Michael
Zuroy.
Alfred Hitchcock's
Anthology #27 (Murder & Other Mishaps)
M73
Edited by Cathleen
Jordan. (Anthology #27,
1989). © 1989 Davis Publications. 318 pages. 21 Stories of Mystery
and Suspense. From the Introduction by the editor - "For about a
dozen years now, the publishers of Alfred Hitchcock's
Mystery
Magazine have been putting together
collections of stories mostly taken from that magazine's past. this is our 27th
such anthology (and there are more to come!). If you've just joined us, welcome.
You'll find within these covers tales of crime and mystery in considerable
variation, from straightforward, clue-filled investigations of murder to
chilling suspense to some decidedly unexpected approaches to crime-solving. Some
are laced with humor; some inject a touch of the supernatural. But all are
written with the special voices of these 21 outstanding practitioners of crime
on paper, and all, we hope, will catch you by surprise along the way. We think
you'll like them. And if you've been with us before, welcome back, and read
on..." Contributing writers include Henry Slesar,
C. B. Gilford, Bruce M. Fisher, Jack
Ritchie, William Campbell Gault, Charles Peterson, Joyce Porter, James
Holding, Robert Arthur, Bryce Walton,
Gary Brandner, Pauline C. Smith, Talmage Powell,
Janwillem Van de Wetering, Ernest Savage, Tom Parsons, T. M. Adams, Loren
D. Estleman, Mann Rubin, Jim Thompson, Alec Ross.
The Alfred Hitchcock
Murder Case by
George Baxt.
M5 "An unauthorized novel by the author of The Dorothy Parker Murder
Case." "...moves with the clicking efficiency of the best of
the
Hitchcock chasers." - The Village Voice.
© 1986 by George
Baxt. International Polygonics Limited New York City. 277 pages.
"Baxt's celebrity series has the bounce and humor of both (The Pharoah Love
and the Van Larsen/Plotkin series) along with a smooth assurance of its own, a
solidity that comes from a real knowledge of the past and an unquestionable
affection for the artists whose
personalities he's taking advantage of, as well as for their works. The most
appealing thing about the new Baxts is the way they appear to be contemplations,
rather than exploitations, of the famous dead." - Michael Feingold, The
Village Voice. From the foreword by George Baxt; "This novel has
not been authorized or endorsed by Alfred Hitchcock, his estate, or any of the
individuals or companies that may be licensed to use the name 'Alfred
Hitchcock.' It is simply a historical novel, a work of fiction that includes
Alfred Hitchcock as a character."
"On a Monday Afternoon, June 11, 1923, George Baxt
was born on a kitchen table in Brooklyn. He was nine when his first
published work appeared in the Brooklyn Times-Union. He received
between
two and five dollars for each little story or poem the paper used. His first
play was produced when he was eighteen. It lasted on night. Mr. Baxt has
been a propagandist for Voice of America, a press agent, and an actor's agent.
He has written extensively for stage, screen, and television. During stays in
England in the fifties, he wrote a number of films (Circus of Horrors; Horror
Hotel; Burn, Witch, Burn) which are now staples of late night
television. His first novel, A Queer Kind of Death, was published
in 1966. His other novels include Swing Low, Sweet Harriet; A Parade of
Cockeyed Creatures; Topsy and Evil; "I!" Said The Demon;
Process of Elimination; The Dorothy Parker Murder Case; and most
recently The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case. Mr. Baxt lives in New
York, is a bachelor, and is devoted to his VCR." (Author
notes as of 1986).
Alfred Hitchcock's
Anti-Social Register
M44
Edited by Alfred Hitchcock.
"Sabotage. Once again Alfred Hitchcock, not-so-secret agent of the
underworld, has been discovered consorting with known mad-men, murderers, ghouls
and other unsavory characters. Posing under a cloak of
respectability,
Hitchcock is clearly seeking to torpedo the Good Life. Although Hitchcock will
not admit this sinister charge, the evidence is stacked against him, as witness
his Anti-Social Register. A new and diabolic masterpiece of
propaganda from Hitchcock and a hand-picked team of talented collaborators
totally dedicated to the cause of terrifying the good, the kind, the innocent of
the world." Dell. © 1965 H.S.D.
Publications. 206 pages. "The Fine Art of Murder. A murder can
be as delicious and titillating as a glass of rare vintage champagne or as
pedestrian and bland as a vanilla malted. This volume is concerned only with the
former - deaths contrived with loving thought and meticulous planning,
masterpieces of murder perpetrated only by those willing to execute their
missions with savoir faire and extraordinary skill. Be they amateurs or
professionals, nosy landladies or successful thespians, uncles, wives or sons...
be their motives money, revenge or love... they will not fail to inspire even
the most jaded of crime aficionados." Contributing writers include Fletcher
Flora, James Holding,
Stanley Abbott, Robert Edmond Alter, Donald Honig,
Hal Dresner, Richard Curtis, Helen Nielsen, Henry
Slesar, C.B.
Gilford, Arthur Porges,
Bryce Walton, Richard Hardwick,
Jack Ritchie.
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Alfred Hitchcock's A
Baker's Dozen of Suspense Stories M42
Edited by Alfred
Hitchcock. "The eerie imaginations of Agatha
Christie, Ray Bradbury, Graham
Greene, John Steinbeck,
and
nine other masters of the strange and terrifying." Dell. ©
1949
Alfred J. Hitchcock. 192 pages. "Never say die... For those who had
the courage to come back for more, that generous master of suspense has provided
a baker's dozen of the bizarre, a little extra in the way of horror and
intrigue. Here is a supreme collection of skin-prickling suspense, cunningly
chosen to startle and terrify, by... Alfred Hitchcock." "The
signs are unmistakable - sever drops of still-moist blood, two sinister shadows
in the night, a half-empty bottle of arsenic... Alfred Hitchcock has been at it
again, in collaboration with Agatha Christie, D. H.
Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Mary Deasy,
F. Tennyson Jesse, Samuel Blas, Ellis
St. Joseph, Ray Bradbury, Georges
Carousso, Louis Pollock, Robert
Lewis, Graham Greene, Eugene Manlove Rhodes.
BUY IT M42PB1 Paperback, excellent condition. $5.
Alfred Hitchcock
Presents: Bar The Doors
M11B
Edited by Alfred Hitchcock.
"13 Great Tales of Terror by Masters of the Macabre." Dell
Publishing. © 1946 Alfred J. Hitchcock. 192 pages.
"Speaking of Terror, for the foreword by Alfred Hitchcock: A
collection of stories of suspense which I edited for Dell Books having proved a
success, the publishers asked me to bring together a group of tales which I
admire because of their skillful handling of the element of terror. Really this
seems to me to amount to another collection of suspense stories, for terror is
often accompanied by suspense in the unfolding of a thrilling narrative -- or,
to put it another way, a story which gives the reader a feeling of
terror
necessarily contains a certain measure of suspense. Wouldn't it be well,
my friends, to bar the doors before you commence to read this assortment of
chills and shivers?" "Don't Anybody Move - Here, selected by the
master, are thirteen superlative tales designed to keep you frozen to your seat
and written by the world's most ingenious creators of the weird, the shocking,
and the fantastic. Among them: H.
G. Wells, Alexander
Woollcott, Dubose
Heyward, Ambrose
Bierce, Margaret Irwin, Samuel
Hopkins Adams, Wilbur Daniel Steele, August
Derleth, McKnight
Malmar, Peter Fleming, F. Marlon
Crawford, Alfred Noyes,
Martin Armstrong.
Alfred Hitchcock's
Behind the Death Ball M45
Edited by Alfred
Hitchcock. "That master hustler of horror chalks up a new
high in terror." Dell. © 1974 H.S.D. Publications. 176
pages. "Mr.
Hitchcock needs your help. Any artist is only as good as his audience, and that
master orchestrator of terror, Alfred Hitchcock, is no exception. What good is
his fearful brand of fiendish fun if he has no nerves to twist, no teeth to set
chattering, no vocal chords to strum into high notes of horrified hysteria?
That's where you come in, dear reader. Just put yourself in Hitch's skillful
hands, and he'll give you a screaming good time with personally selected stories
and novelettes by such masters of menace and the macabre as Lawrence
Treat, August Derleth,
Arthur Porges, Helen Nielsen,
Henry Slesar, Talmage
Powell, C.B.
Gilford, Fletcher Flora,
Bruce Hunsberger, Ed Lacy, John Lutz,
Hal Ellson, Robert Alan Blair,
Syd Hoff.
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Alfred Hitchcock's
The Best Of Fiends
Edited by Alfred Hitchcock.
M45B "It's always evil weather, when
Alfie and his pals get together!" "Kill and Tell. Alfred
Hitchcock doesn't believe that
roses
should blush unseen, or murderers should hide their masterpieces from the
public. After all, says Alfie, what's the good of constructing a perfect crime
if only its evil architect can appreciate its baleful beauty? It is
because Alfie believes so passionately in the public's right to know that he has
assembled this delightfully devilish collection of stories. When you toss
and turn in bed after finishing this book, and wake up screaming from nightmares
dancing in your head, you'll be able to thank the one and only Alfred Hitchcock
for his ever-so-thoughtful gift of terror. " 14 Stories. Dell Publishing. ©
1972 by H.S.D. Publications. 208 pages. "Let It All Hang Out!
Everybody knows Alfred Hitchcock is the world's foremost connoisseur of evil,
but few realize he is also a pioneering psychologist. According to Alfie, the
only way to get rid of our dark and violent impulses is to give free play to
them -- and as proof of the gloriously grisly fun fully liberated fields can
have, he is presenting fourteen brilliant writers who follow his perverse
prescription right down to the final terrifying scream. Here are great
novelettes and stories by H. A. DeRosso,
C. B. Gilford, Rog Phillips, Edwin
P. Hicks, Richard Deming,
Dick Ellis, Fletcher Flora,
Neil M. Clark, Gilbert Ralston,
Mary Linn Roby, Ed Lacy,
Robert Colby, Jack Ritchie, Richard
O. Lewis.
Alfred
Hitchcock The Best of
Mystery
M1 Sixty-three Short Stories Chosen by the
Master of
Suspense.
Here are 65 spine-tingling tales, introduced by the master of suspense, the late
Alfred Hitchcock. Galahad Books New York. © 1976 Davis
Publications. 636 pages. These suspenseful stories originally appeared in Alfred
Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and, in the words of the master himself, are
"calculated to make your blood run cold." Many of the best
mystery writers got their start in AHMM, and continue to be regular
contributors. Contributing writers in this volume include
Edward D.
Hoch, Henry Slesar,
Pauline C. Smith, Avram Davidson, Lawrence Block, Jack
Ritchie, Hillary Waugh, Charles Boeckman, Roderick
Wilkinson, Bill Pronzini, F.J.
Kelly, Ed McBain, Gilbert Ralston, Borden
Deal, Rebert Colby, Ron
Goulart, Donald E. Westlake, Lawrence Treat, John Lutz, James Michael Ullman,
Patricia Highsmith, William Link & Richard Levinson, Richard
Stark, Jean
Potts, Rufus King, Richard M. Ellis, C.B. Gilford,
James Holding, Wenzell Brown, Charlotte Edwards, Dan J.
Marlowe, Paul W. Fairman,
E.X. Ferrars, Bryce Walton, Mary Barrett, Kate Wilhelm, Paul Tabori, Eleanor
Dally Boylan, Helen Nielsen, Donald Honig,
Holly Roth, Lawrence Page, David Ely, Nedra Tyre,
Carroll Mayers, Margaret Chenoweth, William P. McGivern. (Also see "Library
of Mystery" on this page. The book also comes as part of a
two book boxed set, paired with "Tales of
Terror")!
BUY IT M1HB1 Fine book and DJ. $19. (Media rate postage is $3.00).
Alfred Hitchcock's
Bleeding Hearts M46
Edited by
Alfred Hitchcock. "If at first you don't
succeed, kill, kill
again! Alfred Hitchcock believes that practice makes perfect, especially
in the fine art of murder. Your first crime might be jumped on by critics - a messy corpse,
clumsily dropped clues, maybe even a victim left alive. But don't despair. Just
do your thing awhile - and you'll kill them every time! In fact, you just might
approach the diabolical expertise you'll find in every one of the 14 chillers
Hitch has selected for your shivery delight." Dell. ©
1974 H.S.D
Publications. 238 pages. Contributing writers include Robert
Bloch, H.A. DeRosso, Jack Ritchie,
Richard Hardwick, Michael Brett, Richard Deming, Robert Alan Blair, Frank
Sisk, Hal Ellson, Fletcher Flora, Donald Honig,
Theodore Mathieson, John Lutz, Talmage Powell.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Borrowers
Of The Night M46B
Edited by Cathleen Jordan. 27
Stories
of Mystery & Suspense. © 1983
Davis Publications. 348 pages. "Those who 'Borrow The Night' to carry
out fell deeds may do so literally (by hiding themselves in darkness) or
figuratively (by hiding their identities in secrecy). What follows, in
most cases, is a mystery for the rest of us to unravel, and Alfred Hitchcock's
Borrowers of the Night is full of them -- a varied collection of stories crammed
with dark plots, clues, and detectives on their trail." Contributing
writers include Lawrence Block, Michael Collins, Jonathan
Craig, August Derleth, Ed Dumonte,
Elijah Ellis, Ron Goulart, Marilyn Granbeck, Edwin
P. Hicks, James Holding, Donald
Honig, George Grover Kipp, Margaret B. Maron, Arthur Moore, Al
Nussbaum, Patrick O'Keeffe, Donald Olson, Arthur
Porges, Bill Pronzini, Jack
Ritchie, Nancy Schachterle, Pauline C. Smith,
Max Van Derveer, Stephen Wasylyk, Edward Wellen, Donald
L. Westlake, Waldo Carlton Wright.
BUY IT M46B1 Hardback & dust jacket in very good condition. Former library copy. $15.
Alfred Hitchcock's Boys
And Ghouls Together M47
Edited
by Alfred Hitchcock. "Here's
Hitch -- wishing you good night and pleasant screams!" Dell. ©
1974
H.S.D. Publications. 253
pages. "Hitch's encounter group. Alfred Hitchcock has developed
his own form of shock therapy for those in need of straightening out their
twisted lives. It consists simply of bringing together cunning killers and
unsuspecting victims in let-it-all-hang-out sessions set up either to kill or
cure -- preferably the former. Now Hitch has assembled a chilling casebook of
diabolically successful experiments in this excruciatingly exciting area of
research -- fourteen tales guaranteed to turn your dreams into nightmares by
such masters as Lawrence Treat, Robert C.
Ackworth, Henry Slesar, C.B.
Gilford, August Derleth,
Robert Colby, Ed Lacy, Richard Hardwick, Arthur Porges,
Donald E. Westlake, Elijah Ellis,
Fletcher Flora, Frank Sisk, Robert Alan
Blair.
BUY IT M47PB1 Paperback, excellent condition. $5.
Alfred Hitchcock
Presents: Breaking The Scream
Barrier
M12
(Stories to be Read With the
Lights On, Vol. II).
Edited by Alfred Hitchcock, with Harold
Q. Masur. "Hitchcock has
come up with the
Great New Sound of the '70s!" Dell.
© 1973 Random
House New York. 220 pages. "Test your terror threshold.
Dodd you twitch at the sight of a corpse? Does a bit of another's blood make
your own run cold? Does a menacing shadow beneath a streetlight late at night
make you walk a little faster? Does the rattling of a window at three in the
morning find an echo in the chattering of your teeth? No? Well, then let Alfred
Hitchcock give you his ultimate test as he puts you in the hands of masters of
mystery and the macabre whose business and pleasure are to carry you beyond the
boundaries of safety and into the heart of the terror that waits for us all.
Here are 20 great nerve-twisters by such star spellbinders as Robert
L. McGrath, Rose Million Healey, Ardath
F. Mayhar, Al
Nussbaum, Jack
Ritchie, Nancy C. Swoboda,
Betty Ren Wright, Barry Malzberg,
Harold Q. Masur, William F. Nolan, Bill
Pronzini, Harold Rolseth, Paul
Theridion, Waldo Carlton Wright, Berkely Mather, David Montross, Joan
Richter, William
Sambrot, Jeffrey M. Wallmann, Mitsu
Yamamoto.
BUY IT M12PB1 Paperback, very good condition. $5. M12PB2 Paperback, good condition $4.
A Brief Darkness M7
Edited by
Alfred Hitchcock. © 1988 by Castle Books. 379 pages. Published years
after The Master's death presented
are 35 tales ala Alfred Hitchcock by contributing writers Robert Arthur, Gary
Brandner, Helen Fislar Brooks, Duffy Carpenter, Babs H. Deal, Johh H. Dirckx,
Alvin S. Fick, C. B. Gilford, Kathryn Gottlieb, Len Gray, George
Grover Kipp, O.
H. Leslie, John Lutz, Donald Martin, Raymond Mason, Anne Morice, A. F. Oreshnik,
Arthur Porges, Talmadge Powell, Bill Pronzini, Jack Ritchie, Ernest Savage,
Frank Sisk, Pauline C. Smith, Gerald Tomlinson, Nedra
Tyre, Penelope Wallace,
Stephen Wasylyk, Miel Tanburn, Lawrence Treat, Ann F. Woodward, Stephen Wasylyk,
Henry Slesar and Brian Garfield.
BUY IT M7HB1 Hard Copy, book & DJ very fine. $20.
Alfred Hitchcock's A
Choice of Evils M43
Edited by Elana
Lore. Thirty-four stories of mystery &
suspense.
Offered is a varied menu of evils in this collection - from the subtle to the
fantastic. And, as you will see, even the most innocent among us can be
drawn into its tangled web. The Dial Press. © 1983 Davis Publications. 348
pages. Contributing writers include Gloria Amoury, Robert Bloch,
Lawrence Block, Charles Boeckman, William Brittain, Stanley Cohen, Borden
Deal, Richard Deming, Robert L. Fish, W. Sherwood Hartman, Joe L. Hensley, Edward
D. Hoch, Clark Howard, Evan Hunter, William Link & Richard
Levinson, Virginia Long, John Lutz, Dan J. Marlowe, Harold Q. Masur, Charles
Mergendahl, Sonora Morrow, Patrick O'Keeffe, Donald Olson, Arthur
Porges,
Talmage Powell, Jack Ritchie, Frank Sisk, John F. Suter,
Lawrence Treat, James Michael Ullman, Stephen Wasylyk, Thomasina Weber, Edward Wellen,
Donald E. Westlake.
Elana Lore is a former editor of both Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Her most recent book was Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions (see below), a collection of stories of suspense and the supernatural. She is, in her other life, managing editor of Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance magazine. (Background info as of 1983).
Alfred Hitchcock
hand-picks and introduces A Bouquet of Clean Crimes and Neat
Murders M43B
Written by Henry Slesar. From
the Introduction by Alfred Hitchcock...
"In the past five years of Alfred Hitchcock Presents it has been my
pleasure to dispose of several hundred victims in your living room. I
trust the resultant gore hasn't made too much of a mess of your carpets.
We have tried to keep our crimes clean and our murders neat. Some part of
our success in this direction is demonstrated
in this collection. These stories, all of which were translated into
television programs, are prime examples of the program's philosophy. In
case you didn't realize we had a philosophy, allow me to describe it for
you. It consists of these principles: 1) Murder isn't nice. 2)
Violence is a bore, unless there is a good reason for it. 3) Nobody is
really squeamish. 4) Crime may not pay, but it can certainly
entertain. 5) The play's the thing.
This last principle, while not entirely original, is perhaps the most important. On Alfred Hitchcock Presents we have continually endeavored to place the Story above the Gory. Our rather large audience likes it that way (and our sponsors rather like our large audiences). Henry Slesar, whose name should be familiar to those persistent viewers who watch our program to the very last credit line, is the author of the following tales. You will discover that Mr. Slesar agrees with our principles wholeheartedly. A soft-spoken young man with an excellent criminal record (in fiction, of course), he has produced for your amusement and edification such engaging characters as Milt Potter, who stole two hundred thousand dollars and wouldn't give it back; a kindly waitress with a habit of serving arsenic; a burglar willing to listen to reason; a man who cannot sleep -- for the most curious reason; a lady who cannot keep her mouth shut -- even to save her life; an escape artist who cannot escape; and other entertaining specimens. Charming people, all - scoundrels, murderers, and victims alike.
I am sure you will enjoy meeting them in their original published form. Sadly, we are forced to omit the commercials from this volume. However, you may enjoy both commercials and stories every week by simply tuning in Alfred Hitchcock Present every Tuesday evening on NBC Television. I shall be present to lead you gently into both. Now I would suggest that you turn the page, and have yourself a shudderingly good time." © 1960 Avon Book Division, The Hearst Corporation. 160 pages. Stories Included: Not the Running Type, A Fist Full of Money, Pen Pal, Trust Me, Mr. Paschetti, One Grave Too Many, 40 Detectives Later, the Morning After, The Deadly Telephone, Something Short of Murder, The Right Kind of a House, M is for the Many, The Last Escape, The Man With Two Faces, Case of the Kind Waitress, Make Me an Offer, Sleep Is for the Innocent, The Day of the Execution.
Alfred Hitchcock's Coffin
Break M48
Edited by Alfred Hitchcock. ©
Dell 1974. 222 pages. "Sit
down,
relax and enjoy the rich aroma of 100% pure evil. Alfred Hitchcock, the
Insidious One, has selected only the most chilling morsels for this unholy blend
of choice tales of terror, all hand-picked from the fiendish fields of murder,
mystery and mayhem. So take a break from the innocence and tranquility of
everyday life and pore through this deliciously diabolic mixture. Join the
Insidious One in a refreshing taste of ingenious malevolence, brewed to criminal
perfection such sages of the sinister as Richard Deming,
Gil Brewer, Syd Hoff, Helen Nielsen, C.B. Gilford, Arthur
Porges, Henry Slesar, Hal Ellson, John
Lutz, Ed Lacy, James Holding, Dick Ellis, Hal
Dresner, Jonathan Craig.
BUY IT M48PB1 Paperback, good condition. $4.
Alfred Hitchcock's Coffin
Corner M49
Edited by Alfred
Hitchcock. "Alfie's back - with a coffin full of devilish
new delights." Dell. © 1968 H.S.D. Publications. 220 pages.
"A" is for the arsenic he's
fond
of. "L" is for his lethal taste in tales. "F"
is for the fiends who are his best friends. "I" is for the
icepicks that they use. "E" is for the extra-special pleasure
he takes in every slaying that's well done. Put them all together they
spell ALFIE, the man who says that murder can be fun."
"Down by the old blood stream. That's where Alfred Hitchcock, that
chillingly cheerful master of ghoulish gambols, likes to stroll when he's in the
mood for a little gory refreshment. Entertainment is supposed to turn people on,
but Alfie likes the kind that turns them off - permanently. You'll agree, when
you sample his newest offerings of macabre murder and thumb-screw suspense, that
he's out to give you a screaming good time. Contributing writers include Donald
Honig, Talmage Powell, Mary Linn Roby,
Richard Deming, William Brittain, Richard O. Lewis,
Hal Ellson, Richard Hardwick, H.A. DeRosso, Arthur
Porges, August Derleth,
John Lutz, Frank Sisk, John Arre.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Crime
Watch M50
Edited by Cathleen
Jordan. (Anthology #18,
Summer, 1984). 25 Stories of Mystery & Murder. ©
1984
Davis
Publications. 348 pages. From the Introduction by Editor Cathleen
Jordan; "If one undertakes to look out for crime, one must keep a
sharp eye out for hot tempers and dark alleys, for lost love and sudden wealth
(tiresome spouses are particularly vulnerable,
and
anyone at all who has put his name to a Last Will and Testament). One should
keep firmly in mind that things are rarely what they seem to be, but
nevertheless, one should always adopt a guarded stance around guns, knives,
bottles of poison and bottles of sleeping pills (and therefore around cups of
hot chocolate and bottles of wine, especially sealed ones). One should look out
for jewelry cases, revelatory diaries, unlocked French doors, packets of white
powder, and rare stamps. One must, however, be careful Not To Know Too Much if
one does not wish to cease to know a thing. Which can make crimewatching tricky.
In its nearly three decades of publishing new mystery stories, Alfred
Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine has come upon thousands of such
important details. The stories that follow are all taken from its archives, and
they suggest, at least, the range of clues and confoundments that crimewatchers
can get mixed up with. And be entertained by." Abetting writers
include Charles Boeckman, Douglas Farr, Fletcher Flora,
James Holding, Donald Honig, George Grover
Kipp, Ed
Lacy, Allen Lang, John Lutz, Dan J. Marlowe, Donald
Martin, Helen Nielsen, Donald Olson, Henry T.
Parry, Talmage Powell, S. S. Rafferty, Carl Henry
Rathjen, Jack Ritchie, Frank Sisk, Henry
Slesar, Pauline C. Smith, William M. Stephens, Lawrence
Treat, Thomasina Weber, Betty Ren
Wright.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents:
Dates With Death M13
(Formerly,
Tales From A Month of Mystery).
Edited
by Alfred Hitchcock. "When Hitchcock asks you out, get ready
for a bloody good
time."
Dell. © 1969 Random House New York. 214 pages. "Alfred Hitchcock
loves his work - but even he has to admit his schedule is getting overcrowded.
From the moment he wakes with dawn breaking over the cemetery to the midnight
screams that lull him to sleep after a long day's lethal labors, the master of
the macabre has barely a moment free of fiendish fun and gory goings-on. But
what is wearing for Hitchcock is wonderful for the reader as Hitchcock comes up
with the pick of the crop from his non-stop harvest of horror. Here are 15 tales
to terrify by such all-time top spellbinders as Ross
Macdonald, Michael Gilbert, Lawrence
Treat, Romain Gary,
E.C. Bentley, Edward D. Hoch,
Harry Muheim, Stephen Marlowe, Matthew
Gant, Howard Rigsby, Basil Cooper,
Helen McCloy, James
Holding,
William Sambrot,
Alex Gaby.
BUY IT M13PB1 Paperback, good condition. $4.
Alfred Hitchcock's
Death Bag M51
Edited by Alfred
Hitchcock. "Open it, look inside. But don't say we didn't
warn you!" Dell. © 1969 H.S.D. Publications. 159 pages.
"Terror, Anyone? Of course, it's not for everyone. Some prefer the sunny
side of life. Others like tales of rousing inspiration. There are
even those - believe it or not - who find homicide somehow distressing. But if
you don't mind a chill a page, a little blood splattered here and there, and an
infinite amount of diabolical cunning, we think Alfred Hitchcock's latest
gathering will be just your cup of tea. And don't mind that slightly bitter
taste. Its only... But why spoil the surprise?" "Murderers of
the world, just go do your thing! Don't let the squares stunt your
self-expression. Painters need canvas and paint. Writers need paper and ink. And
an artist like you needs a nice victim or two or three or more - at least if
you're one of the purveyors of swinging death all tied up and ready to be
delivered for macabre reading pleasure in Alfred Hitchcock's Death
Bag." Stores by such master of mystery as Hal Ellson, Mary
Linn Roby, Henry Slesar, C.
B. Gilford, Helen Nielsen, Talmage Powell,
H. A. DeRosso, Jack Ritchie, Robert Colby, Arthur
Porges, Michael Brett, Robert Edmond Alter, Richard H. Hardwick, Hal
Dresner.
BUY IT M51PB2 Paperback, fair $2. M51PB3 Paperback, very good - spot where sticker removed on back. $4.
Alfred Hitchcock's Death
Can Be Beautiful M52
Edited by
Alfred Hitchcock. "Turn on to terror, say Hitch -- in a
brand new coffin full of grisly delights." Dell. ©
1972 by H.S.D.
Publications. 215
pages.
"Many a murderer has been left to blush unseen. Beauty should be open
to all, says Alfred Hitchcock, and it pains that connoisseur of the fine art of
evil to think of all the beautiful acts of horror that the public never gets to
appreciate. That's why Hitch has dedicated his life to letting the general
population see how talented the best of fiends can be - and now he presents the
latest, greatest showing in his gallery of terror. You'll scream for more when
you read spine-tingling gems by such masters as: H.A. DeRosso, Arthur
Porges, Donald Honig, Hal Ellson, Jack Webb,
August Derleth, James Holding,
C.B. Gilford, Fletcher Flora, Donald E.
Westlake, Nedra Tyre, Ed Lacy, Robert Colby, James
H. Schmitz.
BUY IT M52PB1 Paperback. Excellent condition. $5.
Alfred Hitchcock's Death-Mate
M53 Edited by Alfred Hitchcock. "The
clock runs out fast when Alfie'
s
ghoulish grandmasters make their moves!" Dell. ©
1973 H.S.D
Publications. 224 pages. "Endgames. Alfred Hitchcock loves the murder
game because it offers such an infinite possibility of moves. A drop of arsenic
in coffee, a silken noose around the neck, a sharpened knife in the back, a
bullet in the brain, are just a few of the classic ploys -- and there is always
somebody to come up with a fascinating new variation. Now Alfie has set up his
chessboard of evil, and turned his grandest masters of the macabre loose to do
their bloodcurdling best -- in novelettes and stories by such fiendish favorites
as Jack Ritchie, Hal Ellson, Fletcher
Flora, Syd Hoff, C.B. Gilford, Henry
Slesar, August Derleth, Richard O.
Lewis, Talmage Powell, Michael Brett, Charles W.
Runyon, Elijah Ellis, Theodore Mathieson, James
Holding.
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Alfred Hitchcock
Death On Arrival M2
Edited by Alfred Hitchcock. "A
Chilling Reception awaits you... 14 Excursions into Terror." Dell. ©
1979 Davis Publications. 253 pages. The best from
Alfred Hitchcockk's
Mystery Magazine #38. "Alfred Hitchcock is your guide on a
one-way trip to
terror...
You're in the hands of the Master himself when you book passage with Hitchcock.
The terrain is murderous, and the schedule quite killing - but then there's
nothing conventional about this journey. Hitchcock's idea of an
out-of-the-way place is the bottom of the ocean, and when he takes you off the
beaten track, don't be surprised to find that it includes a graveyard. Among
your many stopovers, you'll be dropping in on
Richard Deming, Robert Alan Blair, Edward
D. Hoch, C.B. Gilford,
Hal Ellson, Fletcher Flora,
Robert Colby, John Lutz, Arthur Porges,
Richard Hardwick, Frank Sisk,
William Brittain, Donald
Honig, Dick Ellis.
Alfred Hitchcock's
Death-Reach M54
Edited by Cathleen
Jordan. (Anthology #13,
1983). 27 Stories of Murder and Mystery. © 1982
Davis Publications.
348 pages. From the Introduction by
Editor Cathleen Jordan; "Edgar
Allan Poe obviously started something with The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
For upwards of a century and a half now, fictional bodies have been turning up
across the
country (and in a good many others, England being especially notable in that
regard), in libraries and drawing rooms and at the foot of cellar steps,
dropping past us out of windows and reaching out for our unwary feed in the dark
corners of nighttime back yards. They've turned up in swimming pools and
fishponds, in their own snug beds where they've just pretended to die peaceful
deaths, and, startlingly, at the dinner table where there's usually something
appallingly wrong with the wine. All of which makes for some excellent reading.
And the authors of the stories in this volume have conjured up some especially
ingenious tales of mystery and mystery-solving, and of that long reach of
death. Contributing writers include Michael Collins, Stanley
Abbott, Phil Davis, William Jeffrey, James Holding,
George Antonich, Hal Ellson, Allen Lang, James Cross, Robert Turner, Al
Nussbaum, Fletcher Flora, Bryce Walton,
Edwin P. Hicks, Borden Deal, Helen Nielsen, Edward
D. Hoch, Robert Alan Blair, Bill Pronzini,
Donald Honig, Richard Hardwick, Jack
Ritchie, Donald Martin, Douglas Campbell, George
Grover Kipp, John Crowe, Michael Van De Ven.
Alfred Hitchcock
Don't
Look A gift Shark In The Mouth
M3 (Formerly "More of My Favorites
In
Suspense"). Edited by Alfred
Hitchcock. "Watch out! You're about to be hooked on
terror." Dell. © 1959 Random House New York. 287 pages.
"Hitchcock's finest catch of terror and
suspense. No fan of Hitchcock worth his salt would want to miss these stories,
with plots as intricate and sinister as the icy depts. And, as usual, nothing
worth shuddering at has escaped the master's net. A word of caution
though. You're likely to find yourself squirming as Hitchcock angles to land his
chilliest collection yet. This volume includes 6 stories and one full-length
novella by the likes of Jack Finney,
William Sambrot, Robert Arthur,
F. Tennyson Jesse, Hilda Lawrence,
Mann Rubin, William Daniel Steele.
From the Introduction by the Master of the Macabre - "And now, if you are
anxious to curl up with a good book, perhaps we should be getting on. When you
begin reading, may I suggest you choose a time when you are alone in the house.
If there are people there, get rid of them. The book is full of suggestions of
how this can be accomplished. Now turn out all the lights you possibly can, look
over the stories and take one before retiring. If you want to sample another,
help yourself, but be careful. An overdose could be fatal. After all, this is a
highly toxic book."
BUY IT M3PB1 Paperback, very good. $4.
Alfred Hitchcock's Down
By The Old Bloodstream
M55 Edited by Alfred Hitchcock.
"Hitch invites you to jump right in - the gore is fine!" Dell. ©
1971 H.S.D. Publications. 195 pages. "Murderers' Lib. Now that every
sexual and other human grouping seems to be demanding equal
rights, Alfred
Hitchcock thinks it's time for his favorite kind of people to make their wants
known. Simple justice is all they're asking for. Good jobs and housing. Public
recognition of their achievements. And, of course, an end to all those laws that
so harshly discriminate against them. Hitch doesn't like to think what might
happen if these reasonable requests are denied. Nothing as polite as protests,
naturally, nor as crude as bombs. Hitch's killing crew have so many other ways
of making their displeasure known - as you'll find out in the fourteen chilling
tales in - Down by the Old Bloodstream." "You can get anything you
want at Hitch's Restaurant! Like horror on the half-skull? Corpses bloody rare?
Suspense done to the last turn of terror? Mystery seasoned with bizarre
imagination and served up with grisly relish? You'll find the nerve-tingling
treats you want at Hitch's place, where you are invited to sit right down and
enjoy a lip-smacking, throat-clutching feast prepared by Alfred Hitchcock's
personal choice of such master literary chefs as Hal
Ellson, Richard Hardwick, Fletcher
Flora, Richard Deming, Talmage
Powell, Robert Edmond Alter, James Holding,
Jack Webb, Ed Lacy, Michael Brett, Arthur Porges,
Pat Stadley, C.B. Gilford, Frank
Sisk.
BUY IT M55PB2 Paperback, very good. $5.
Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal
Attractions M56
Edited by Elana
Lore. Twenty-one stories of suspense and the
supernatural.
Throughout the years Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine has published many
stories of the bizarre, the occult, and the supernatural, and they thought it
might be fun, since these kinds of stories are so popular right now, to put some
of them, along with some classic stories in the field, together in a collection.
Well, here it is, full of clairvoyants, psychic healers, demonologists,
poltergeists, and ghosts, plus some things we just knew were strange, but
couldn't quite put our finger on. The Dial Press. ©
1983 by Davis
Publications. 348 pages. Contributing writers include Robert Alan Blair,
Marjorie Bowen, Ernest Bramah, George C. Chesbro, G. K. Chesterton,
Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Jacques Futrelle, Randall Garrett, C. B.
Gilford, Dorothy Gilman, Ron Goulart, W. F. Harvey, Edward D. Hoch, W. W.
Jacobs, Clayton Matthews, Patrick O'Keefe, Donald Olson, Arthur Porges,
James H. Schmitz, Henry Slesar.
Alfred Hitchcock's Fear
M57 Edited by Cathleen Jordan, with Gail
Hayden. (Anthology #12,
1982). © 1982 Davis Publications. 348 pages. From the Introduction
by The Editor - "The collection of stories brought together in this volume
is, we think, a special one. It brings together a wide variety of
very
good authors, for one thing - from Conan Doyle to Isaac Asimov to Jack Ritchie,
winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short
Story of 1981. And for another, it shows the extraordinary range of the mystery
story. Crime can, it seems, be written about in almost any manner. Jack
Ritchie's "Play a Game of Cyanide" is a light and playful
story, as its title indicates. Helen Mcloy's "Chinoiserie" is
full of dreams from a vanished China. And Damon Knight's "Anachron"
combines the sense of past, present, and future in so special and unusual a way
that they almost become one." Contributing writers include
Donald Honig, Helen McCloy, Isaac Asimov,
Randall Garrett, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Erle Stanley
Gardner, M. R. James, Clark Howard, Damon Knight, Elijah Ellis, W. T.
Quick, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack
Ritchie, Larry Niven, Algernon Blackwood, August
Derleth, James Holding, Frederick Pohl & C.
M. Kornbluth, Tom Godwin. Feast!
Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside
Book Of Suspense M57B
Edited and With Introductory Notes By Alfred Hitchcock.
Simon and Schuster New York. © 1947. 367 pages. From the
Introduction by
Mr.
Hitchcock:
"It seems to me that suspense is the significant element in every story --
else what we are dealing with is not a story at all. A child who begs to be told
a story does not want one without suspense in it. Suspense is the plot device
which makes storytelling an art.
The primitive man who, reciting the perils of
the hunt, held his fellows spellbound as they crouched around the fire, was
aware of the effect of suspense. I merely present these stories as I might
introduce a number of respected and interesting friends of mine. I trust that
you may like them all the more for this informal type of meeting, and that
hereafter they will be regarded as your friends too." Mystery tales
by Perceval Gibbon, Graham
Greene, Carl Stephenson, Edwin Corle,
William Outerson, Phyllis Bottome, Donald
Henderson, Ralph Straus, Ross Santee, A.D. Divine, Sidney
Herschel Small, Ralph Milne Farley, John
Dickson Carr, Margery Sharp,
William Irish, John Metcalfe, Allan
Vaughan Elston, Albert Payson Terhune, Harold Lamb,
Hanson Baldwin, T.O. Beachcroft, Robert
Bloch, James M. Cain, Lord Dunsany, "Ex-Private
X", W.W. Jacobs, Stephen Vincent Benet.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Presents 5 Classic Stories
Edited by Cathleen Jordan.
© 1986 Davis Publications. 60 pages. From the Introduction by
editor Jordan: "Alfred
Hitchcock
Presents had been on the air about a year when the first issue of Alfred
Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine was published, in late 1956. The
magazine promptly became one of Mr. Hitchcock's sources for stories for the
television show -- and, in fact, two of the stories collected herein, Lawrence
Treat's "Suburban Tigress" and Henry Slesar's "The Day
of the Execution," appeared in early issues. Altogether, some thirty
stories were adapted for TV over the years, with the last show of all being
Edward D. Hoch's "Winter Run." Alfred Hitchcock ceased
filming for television in 1965, not long after AHMM's ninth birthday, but
the magazine continued to flourish and will, in December, 1986, celebrate its
thirtieth year of publication. In those three decades it not only brought its
readers numerous stories by all the five authors whose tales are included below,
it has also brought them thousands of other stories by hundreds of other expert
mystery story writers. Any current issue of AHMM is still packed with
murder and revenge, detection and suspense, and often with the humor that Jack
Ritchie especially was so famous for. (Not to mention Alfred Hitchcock
himself.) We are pleased that you enjoyed your first year of AHMM
and that you'll be with us for the year to come. (And maybe for the next thirty
as well!) Thank you on behalf of the entire editorial staff for your recent
renewal. And now we -- all -- have some stories to read..."
Contributing writers include Lawrence Treat, Henry
Slesar, Donald Honig,
Jack Ritchie, Edward D Hoch.
Alfred Hitchcock
Presents 14 Of My Favorites In
Suspense
M14
Edited by Alfred Hitchcock.
FEATURES "THE
BIRDS"! "When Hitchcock's
the judge, make dead sure your nerves can stand a trial by terror!"
Dell. © 1959 Random House New York. 286 pages. "Hitchcock's
Superstars. Tennis has Jimmy Connors. Golf has Jack Nicklaus. Boxing has
Muhammad Ali. But the only sport that Alfred Hitchcock thinks is worth watching
is the murder game, and its superstars prefer to stay far from the limelight
until Hitchcock ferrets them out. Here are artists of evil who can tie your
nerves into a noose with an elegant trigger finger or a strangler's skillful
hands. Here are masters of menace who can send shivers up your spine with a
touch of poison or a cold knife blade. Here are 14 of the finest terror tales by
the most diabolically effective writers who it has ever been Alfred Hitchcock's
perverse pleasure to present: Daphne
Du Maurier, Donald
Honig, Anthony
Boucher, Charlotte Armstrong, H.G.
Wells, Thomas Walsh, Dorothy
Salisbury Davis, Matthew Gant, Guy
Cullingford, Carter Dickson, C.B.
Gilford, Joan Vatsek, Price Day, Paul
Eiden.
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Alfred Hitchcock's 14
Suspense Stories To Play Russian Roulette By M57B
Edited by Alfred Hitchcock. "Something
for everyone... For Water Enthusiasts: an unknown horror
from the vast depths of the sea. For Nature Lovers: the terrible power of
unconquerable nature in the form of... ants! For The Sentimental: a supreme -
and terrifying - test of true love. Alfred Hitchcock, revered master of the
subtle torture, the delicate terror, has concocted a universal collection of
masterful suspense." Dell Publishing. © 1945 by Alfred J.
Hitchcock. 208 pages. "Here, there and everywhere. Alfred Hitchcock
is forever prowling about, sneaking up when you least expect him. With just a
few well-chosen tales, he slyly creates delicious agonies of suspense with such
distinguished cohorts in terror as C. B. Gilford, Phyllis
Bottome, A. D. Divine, Hanson W. Baldwin,
Wilbur Daniel Steele, Ralph Milne
Farley, Capt. William Outerson, Frank R. Stockton,
Ambrose Bierce, Margery Sharp, Albert
Payson Terhune, James M. Cain, Ralph Straus,
Stephen Vincent Benet.
Frenzy
a novel by Arthur La Bern. M57C
Stein and Day Publisher New York. © 1966 by Arthur
La Bern. 218 pages. Formerly published as "Goodbye, Piccadilly, Farewell
Leicester Square". 214 pages. The book upon which the Hitchcock
movie "Frenzy" was based. "The cards seem stacked
against Dick Bamey. He meets his ex-wife for lunch -- she's found murdered the
same afternoon. A bar waitress befriends him, and she winds up dead. Both women
are the victims of a sex maniac. And now the hunt is on for Bamey. This utterly
gripping novel carries you from one memorable scene to another: a matrimonial
agency where Ramey fills out an application form with amusing crudity; an
overnight stay in a flophouse -- and, on another night, a seedy hotel room to
which Ramey has taken on amorous barmaid; a meeting in a London park that leads
to a cover-up flight to Paris; a second murder, which is discovered through a
sack of potatoes that has legs."
Arthur La Bern is the author of eight previous books; his It Always Rains on Sunday became an international bestseller and also a major film. A Londoner, Mr. La Bern was for many years a Fleet Street reporter and feature writer; during World War II he was the Pacific correspondent for the London Evening Standard. A script writer today, he is a work on his tenth novel. (Bio notes as of 1966).
Alfred Hitchcock's Games
Killers Play M58
Edited by Alfred
Hitchcock. "Deadly Endsville. It's a place where murderers
come in every size and shape, from the kindly gentleman next door to the
luscious blonde posing in the window across the street. It's a place where
murder
flourishes in the
most outlandish forms - a place where knives are for nitwits, and strychnine is
for sissies. It's a place where a man never quite knows what killed
him. It's a nice place to visit, but an easy place to die in... Alfred
Hitchcock's Games Killers Play." Dell. © 1967
H.S.D. Publications. 160 pages. "Homicide - Hitchcock Style.
Murder is nasty. Nice people don't do it. Of course not. That's why the world's
so safe. That's why we all live to a ripe old age. So smile. Laugh. Above all,
don't get nervous. Because that master of murderous mayhem, Alfred Hitchcock, is
about to introduce you to as convincing a crew of keen killers and mangled
victims as you'd never care to meet. Today's tops in spellbinding suspense and
tasty terror by August Derleth, Michael
Brett, Hal Ellson, Robert Edmond Alter, Jack
Ritchie, Talmage Powell, Richard Hardwick,
Duane Decker, Nedra Tyre, James Holding, Henry
Slesar, Jonathan Craig, Donald E Westlake
- PLUS - a bonus Novelette
Selection "Pattern Of Guilt"
by Helen Nielsen.
Alfred Hitchcock's Get
Me To The Wake On Time M59
Edited by Alfred
Hitchcock. "Alfie's
in
a hurry to deliver a brand new batch of bloody delights!" 14 stories.
Dell © 1970 H.D.S. Publications. 192 pages. From Alfie's Introduction;
"I am a firm believer in the adage that one good deed deserves another and,
if you will read the exciting stories that follow, you will be doing one for
me." "Graveyard Shift. Alfred Hitchcock doesn't like to complain
- but sometimes it seems his work is never done. He's up early every
morning, scanning the obituaries. Days are spent racing from funeral to funeral.
But the nights are the hardest of all. Some researchers use libraries to
dig up new material. But Alfie's different. To delight his millions of fans, he
has to use a flashlight and shovel... See what Alfred Hitchcock has personally
unearthed for your shivering reading pleasure in Get Me To The Wake On Time."
Contributing writers include Gil brewer, C. B.
Gilford, Ray Russell, Talmage Powell, Jack Ritchie,
Fletcher Flora, Rog Phillips, Helen Nielson, Henry Slesar,
Michael Brett, Arthur Porges, Donald
Honig, Richard
Hardwick, H. A. DeRosso.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Grave
Business M60
Edited by Alfred
Hitchcock. "You'll really dig this great
new grisly gathering!" Dell. © 1975 H.S.D. Publications. 205
pages. "Let's hear that old primal scream! Good news, all you
freaked-out fans! Alfred Hitchcock has come up with a great new cure for your
mental ills -- and he guarantees that the only hang-up you'll have to worry
about is a rope around your neck. So don't be shy. See how it works. Have a
mind-blowing encounter with a group of terror tales by such masters of
electric-shock suspense as Douglas Farr, William Brittain, Jack
Ritchie, Jonathan Craig, Frank
Sisk, Elijah Ellis, Talmage Powell, Richard
Deming, James Holding, Richard Hardwick,
Helen Nielsen, Theodore Mathieson, Robert Edmond Alter, Robert
Colby.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Grave
Suspicions M61
Edited by Cathleen
Jordan. (Anthology #19,
Winter, 1984). 28 Short Stories of Crime & Detection. ©
1984
Davis Publications. 347 pages. From
the Introduction by the editor -
"The 28 short stories collected here have all been taken from the files of Alfred
Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and all 28, naturally, have to do
with crime - murder, mostly.
They demonstrate the proposition that almost anything - from chartering a boat
on the Indian Ocean to attending a masquerade party to a miraculous recovery
from brain surgery - can be perilous indeed. Grave Suspicions, in short,
seem to be in order at every turn in these pages. About the only thing you can
be sure of, as a matter of fact, is that you will be kept guessing - and that
every story has its own set of surprises, conjured up for you by an outstanding
band of mystery story tellers (who are very good at solving puzzles, too). They
include Thomasina Weber, William M. Stephens,
Robert Edmond Alter, Helen Nielsen, Jack
Ritchie, Neil M. Clark, Henry Slesar, Talmage
Powell, Ed Dumonte, Frank Sisk, Jack
Morrison, George C. Chesbro, Betty Ren Wright,
Donald Olson, Jonathan Craig, C. B. Gilford,
Pauline C. Smith, Carroll Mayers, Stephen Wasylyk,
Edward Wellen, Nora Caplan, Bill Pronzini, James
Holding, Donald Honig, John Lutz, Arthur
Porges, Leo P. Kelley, Eleanor Boylan.
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Alfred Hitchcock The
Graveyard Man Presented by Alfred
Hitchcock. M61B
"Dark tales unearthed by the master of the macabre." Mr.
Hitchcock backs up his claim by presenting herein for your delectation stories
by such literary ghouls as Robert Bloch,
Avram Davidson, Lawrence Treat,
Henry
Slesar, C.B. Gilford,
Clark Howard, W. Sherwood
Hartman, William Link & Richard Levinson,
Robert Edmon
Alter. This collection © H.S.D. Publications, 1968.
First NEL edition October 1968. "Conditions of sale: this book is sold
subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be
lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior
consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published
and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the
subsequent purchaser." Published by The New English Library Limited
from Barnard's Inn, Holborn, London E.C.1. A message from your hose:
"Some of the best and most eerie story material in the world can be found
in the locale where I am pictured on the cover. The spade you see is
merely symbolic of unearthing the facts, and just the facts, I swear. Actually
all that is needed is an observing eye and a nose for news... to exhume a good
story. When I was a boy and with the family I sometimes visited an old English
graveyard to pay my respects to dear, departed Aunt Bessie who made, without
doubt, the best Yorkshire pudding in the district, I noticed the aura of mystery
in certain epitaphs chiselled on the older headstones. My interest and
imagination immediately soared, especially when I came across this one:
'Here lies Tillie Hull, She died at twenty-two, From a blow on
the skull.'
to this day when ideas for stories, or TV films, seem hard to come by I often
think what rare material could be gathered if only I could take the time to
wander through an old cemetery. However, with the help of some of the best
thriller writers in the world we still find time to keep you properly chilled
with the spine-tingling stories you savor, like those in this book."
Alfred Hitchcock's A
Hangman's Dozen M62
Edited by Alfred
Hitchcock. "Let Alfie knot your nerves into a
noose!" Dell. © 1962 Dell Publishing. 222 pages. "Who's
that staring at the scaffold? Why, it's that lovable master of mystery and
menace, Alfred Hitchcock, bidding farewell to one of his
dear
fiends. There's a tear in Alfie's eye as he recalls the splendid strangling the
fellow performed, or perhaps it was a neat bit of knifework, or a pretty
poisoning. Yes, Alfie's come to say good-bye to another great old ghoul and to
assure him that though he may be going, he'll not be forgotten. For Alfie makes
it his job to make sure that every truly talented act of deviltry receives its
due, as you will see when you view the ones he's brought to light in A
Hangman's Dozen." "Swing and sway the Alfie way! There's
nothing that Alfred Hitchcock likes better than a gentle summer breeze - if
there are a few hanging bodies swinging in it. It's not that Alfie likes
punishment, you understand. But usually where there's punishment, there's a