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Post by franklinmarsh on May 12, 2008 11:58:12 GMT
I'll return to this proper when I have a bit more time. Found it in the hospital on Saturday and loved the cover - a double page spread obviously based on The Birds (which I still haven't read! despite finding that Dave Allen antho). It was an Armada Lion so presumably aimed at younger readers - published in 1972 (copyright Hitch '67). I was impressed by some of the stories within. Not only the Du Maurier classic, but Agatha Crusty, Dorothy L Slayers and (must we fling this filth at our pop kids?) Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper - which I've just read and enjoyed (especially the lights out sequence)
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 29, 2008 17:36:54 GMT
The Veiled Lady - Agatha Christie The Most Dangerous Game - Richard Connell The Birds - Daphne Du Maurier Puzzle For Poppy - Patrick Quentin Eyewitness - Robert Arthur Man From The South - Roald Dahl Black Magic - Sax Rohmer Treasure Trove - F Tennyson Jesse Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper - Robert Bloch The Treasure Hunt - Edgar Wallace The Man Who Knew How - Dorothy L Sayers The Dilemma Of Grampa DuBois - Clayre and Michael Lipman P. Moran, Diamond-Hunter - Percival Wilde plus A Brief Message From Our Sponsor (AH) 'Humour, an unforeseen twist of events, a sudden revelation, a build-up of tension : Alfred Hitchcock knows the techniques of the effective suspense yarn.' Junior Bookshelf Must we fling this filth at our pop kids (reprise!)? Surely this little lot was far too good for the little bleeders? I don't think I owned this as a child, but wouldn't be surprised if I'd spent quite a while staring at that cover in a bookshop, wishing. |
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Post by Dr Terror on Jun 29, 2008 22:37:42 GMT
W.F. Phillips cover?
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 30, 2008 7:43:32 GMT
Couldn't find a credit in the book, but now that you mention it....
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