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Post by PeterC on Oct 22, 2008 11:57:52 GMT
Does anyone know of this short story? I think it appeared in one of the Alfred Hitchcock anthologies.
Could anyone oblige me with the author, the book it appeared in and a plot summary?
I don't ask for much.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 22, 2008 12:17:08 GMT
It's actually the other way around - Little Foxes, Sleep Warm by Waldo Carlton Wright and it's from 'Alfred Hitchcock's Stories To Be Read With The Doors Locked (Random House 1975). Can't help you with a synopsis, but am sure it was another of the Hitchcock-attributed books that were recycled over two paperbacks when it came to their UK publication.
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Post by sinbagsailor on Mar 21, 2011 2:51:50 GMT
LITTLE FOXES SLEEP WARM is about a farmer with a young wife he loves very much. The winter is very hard and there is not enough food for him, let alone his wife. Worried over her welfare, he recalls hearing a story about how a person might be quickly frozen, and then thawed out again. He decides to do just that, and arranges for his wife to ingest something that makes her drowsy, without her knowledge. After she is drugged, he places her tenderly in an outbuilding, something like a barn or perhaps a smokehouse, in a chair, wrapped in a quilt. The story details the harshness of the winter, and his anticipation of a happy reunion with his sweet and pretty wife when springtime arrives. When warmer weather finally comes, he goes to the outbuilding to awaken his wife. She, is, of course, very still (being dead), but lovely, her eyes closed. He is certain she will wake up when he rouses her. He unwraps the quilt from around her body and what he finds under the quilt is horrifying.
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Post by memphisbelle on Dec 22, 2018 16:25:15 GMT
Was Patience eaten by the foxes or by her husband?
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