Alfred Hitchcock

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Mystery Books

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.

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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 Graveyard 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.

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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")!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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