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Post by allthingshorror on Feb 4, 2009 8:55:23 GMT
Coronet Books 1984i194.photobucket.com/albums/z272/johnnyelvis/DSCF1792.jpgCrook of the Month - Robert Bloch Death of a Peruke Maker - Clayton Matthews The Forever Duel - James McKimmey The Challenger - Carroll Mayers Extra Work - Robert W. Wells The First Moon Tourist - Duffy Carpenter The Long Arm of El Jefe - Edward Wellen Death Sentence - Stephen Wasylyk Kid Cardula - Jack Ritchie Invisible Clue - Jeffry Scott Accidental Widow - Nedra Tyre Element of Surprise - Bruce M. Fisher Looking for Milliken Street - Joyce Harrington Judgment Postponed - Robert Eckels The Window - William Bankier
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Post by dem bones on Feb 4, 2009 10:06:54 GMT
Originally published by Dell in 1946, this seems to have been The second anthology attributed to Hitchcock, originally published by Dell in 1946. The 'forties collections are interesting in that it's even possible that they were actually edited by who it says they were! Of course, it's also possible that i am talking out of my Kylie-esque behind just for a change so ignore such idle speculation. If it was Hitchcock then he knew a proper horror story when he saw one as this and Fear and Trembling: Shivery Stories (Dell, 1948) are tidy selections with the added bonus of some surprise inclusions - Wakefield's superb Ghost Hunt had only just been published in Weird Tales.
Alfred Hitchcock (ed.) - Fear and Trembling: Shivery Stories (Dell, 1948)
Henry S. Whitehead - Cassius Hugh Walpole - The Tarn John Collier - Little Memento M. R. James - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad Ambrose Bierce - One Summer Night Elizabeth Bowen - Telling Ray Bradbury - The Jar John Metcalfe - The Bad Lands H. R. Wakefield - Ghost Hunt John Buchan - Skule Skerry H. G. Wells - The Red Room Lord Dunsany The Sack of Emeralds William Irish (Cornell Woolrich) - The Night Reveals
If you concentrate on the 'forties titles and those which appear to have been the work of Robert Arthur, you've probably got the best of the Hitch books in terms of horror content.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 6, 2009 11:04:56 GMT
The back cover of the Fontana Lions edition boasts a cover blurb so boring even Everest would have thought twice - a quote from Slime and "Alfred Hitchcock has assembled a flesh-creeping crop of monsters created by such well-known writers of horror writers as Stephen Vincent Benet, Richard Parker and Ray Bradbury. So read on ...." Where a collection like Witch's Brew was blatantly compiled with a young readership in mind, 'Hitchcock's introduction A Variety Of Monsters to the contrary, this isn't quite so obvious with the Monster Museum mix which has more widespread appeal. Originally published by Random House in 1965, it's not the best of the Robert Arthur ghost jobs by any means, but if you need a copy of Brennan's sludge classic in a hurry it will do the job, and you get Paul Ernst's entertaining pulp romp The Microscopic Giants into the bargain: Copper miners excavating a shaft thirty thousand feet below Lake Superior during the Great War are attacked by unstoppable, eighteen inch mannikin's who can walk through solid concrete!
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Post by allthingshorror on Feb 7, 2009 13:08:15 GMT
Mayflower 1977
Les Edwards
Contents
Introduction The Sawbuck Machine - Frank Sisk Contraband - James Holding For Every Evil - Douglas Farr You Can't Win Em (At) All - Ed Lacy Murder in Mind - C. B Gilford Charley's Charm - Alice-Mary Schnirring Murder Door to Door - Robert Colby Ransom Demand - Jeffrey M. Wallman I'll Race You - Fletcher Flora I am Not a Thief Mr Kester - Gilbert Ralston Mousetrap - Edwin P. Hicks Mildly Murderous - Elijah Ellis An Element of Risk - Richard Deming A Neighborly Observation - Richard Hardwick
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Post by allthingshorror on Feb 7, 2009 13:32:17 GMT
Mayflower 1974i194.photobucket.com/albums/z272/johnnyelvis/DSCF1805.jpg CONTENTS:Introduction Lonely Place - Jack Webb Triangular Weekend - C. B. Gilford Job for an Amateur - Henry Slesar Welcome to my Prison - Jack Ritchie Perfect Pitcher - Arthur Porges Home Free - Ed Lacy Ebony Killer - Robert C. Ackworth Of the Five Who Came - Fletcher Flora Single Jepoardy - Poul and Karen Anderson Daisies Decieve - Nedra Tyre Room With A View - Hal Dresner The Running Man - Bill Prozini Rest Stop - Frank Sisk No Businessman - Wenzell Brown
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Post by allthingshorror on Oct 12, 2009 8:18:39 GMT
(Dell 1945)
CONTENTS:
The Quality of Suspense - Alfred Hitchcock Leiningen versus the Ants - Carl Stephenson The Liquer Glass - Phyllis Bottome Flood on the Goodwins - A. D. Divine R.M.S. Titanic - Hanson Baldwin Blue Murder - Wilbur Daniel Steele The House of Ecstasy - Ralph Milne Farley Fire in the Galley Stove - Capt. William Outerson The Lady or the Tiger - Frank Stockton An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Bierce The Second Step - Margery Sharp The Blue Paper - Albert Payson Terhune The Baby in the Icebox - James M. Cain The Room on the Fourth Floor - Ralph Straus Elementals - Stephen Vincent Benet
So, the very first book ol' Hitch had a hand in? The collection is 'copyright Alfred Hitchcock 1945' - and as it was his first book, maybe it was such a novelty that he actually DID have a hand in collecting the stories together? His introduction does give give the impression that he has a fair knowledge of the stories and that the collection is more down to the fact that he is a reader of tales than having any ambitions of being 'scholarly'.
This is the first time I've also come across a 'map backed' book - something totally alien to me. As you can see, the back of the book details Leiningen Versus the Ants' - and now the hunt is on for more mapped back books, and if there isn't already, there should be a thread dedicated to these oddities alone!
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Post by dem bones on Oct 12, 2009 9:13:45 GMT
you might like to check with Alfred's Place: i've a feeling that, if anyone knows, they will. Fantastic Fiction list Bar The Doors (1946) as the first, but that's FF and their wretched ghost books for you. Don't know any back cover map specific titles offhand. Dennis Wheatley regularly featured them on his inside covers but i don't remember them being quite as detailed and, to the best of my knowledge, none have any cool "ants - this way" moments. See 'Illustrated endpapers' on Dennis Wheatley info
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Apr 7, 2010 16:23:35 GMT
Alfred Hitchcock - Get Me To The Wake On Time (1974 Mayflower)Couldn't find a thread for this one, but picked it up recently, so I thought I'd make one. Cover + Contents: Introduction - Alfred Hitchcock Goodbye, Now - Gil Brewer Woman Missing - Helen Nielsen Murder Me Gently - C.B. Gilford Be My Valentine - Henry Slesar The Marquessa - Ray Russell Highly Recommended - Michael Brett Old Man Emmons - Talmage Powell The Drum Major - Arthur Porges Upside-Down World - Jack Ritchie Nice Work If You Can Get It - Donald Honig Bach In A Few Minutes - Fletcher Flora Polka-Dot Blonde - Richard Hardwick Experience Is Helpful - Rog Phillips Lucrezia - H.A. DeRosso
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Post by dem bones on Oct 16, 2010 9:17:20 GMT
Alfred Hitchcock - Stories To Be Read With The Light On (Random House, 1973: BCA, 1976) Penny Abrahams Alfred Hitchcock - Introduction
Mary Barrett - Death Out Of Season Frederic Brown - Witness In The Dark Robert Colby - Shadows On The Road Zena Collier - Mr. Mappin Forecloses Ron Goulart - Granny Roald Dahl - The Landlady Harold R. Daniels - Three Ways To Rob A Bank Miriam Allen DeFord - No Loose Ends Joe Gores - Goodbye, Pops James Cross - Pin Money Robert J. Higgins - Social Climber Edward D. Hoch - I'd Know You Anywhere John Keefauver - The Pile Of Sand Warner Law - Payoff On Double Zero Dana Lyon - The Bitter Years Don Stuart - Man's Best Friend William P. McGivern - Killer On The Turnpike Robert L. McGarth - Payment Received Barry Malzberg - Agony Column Rose Million Healey - Guessing Game Harold Q. Masur - The $2, 000, 000 Defence Berkley Mather - The Man In The Well Ardath F. Mayhar - Crawfish William F. Nolan - The Strange Case Of Mr. Pruyn David Montross - Ludmila Al Nussbaum - The One Who Got Away Bill Pronzini - It's A Lousy World Joan Richter - Only So Much To Reveal Jack Ritchie - Who Got The Lady? Harold Rolseth - Hey You Down There William Sambrot - Too Many Sharks Nancy C. Swoboda - Christopher Frame Paul Theridion - Obituary Jeffrey M. Wallmann - Ransom Demand Betty Ren Wright - The Mother Goose Madman Waldo Carlton Wright - The Green Fly And The Box Mitsu Yamamoto - The Blue RugAnother commendable "thanks, hope you didn't go to too much trouble!" dust-jacket from Random! This selection was likely ghosted by Harold Q. Masur who provided "invaluable assistance in the preparation of this volume." pretty certain i read this through once, though the chances of that happening again are remote. As you can tell from the titles, the majority are crime capers but dig a little deeper and there are horrors to be had. Rose Million Healey - Guessing Game: Martha is housekeeper to Granny Belton and her spoilt grandson Jeffrey, whose parents died so tragically in that auto 'accident'. Martha doesn't much like Jeffrey: "He liked to see people uncomfortable or hurt. She had noticed that before. It made her shudder.". Now he nags her into playing a game with him. Martha has to guess what's in the box and, if after three attempts she fails, she has to give him whatever he wants. It's hardly reassuring that Lilian, the previous house-keeper, played and lost shortly before her awful mishap with the samurai sword. Ardath F. Mayhar - Crawfish: "Iffen you never seen a body that's been et by crawfish, you don't want to. It's a sight to turn a goat's stomach, let alone a man's.". A good old boy straight off the set of Deliverance reckons his wife is flirting with every man in town, beats the hell out of her on a regular basis until her pretty face is busted up this way and that. Eventually she snaps and goes for him with a knife. Our hero easily throttles her and dumps her in the river. But then he gets to obsessing about what's happening to her soft white skin and those innocent brown eyes down there ... William F. Nolan - The Strange Case Of Mr. Pruyn: Evidently i'm turning to stone in my dotage because the attack on Mrs Sloan which begins this story absolutely terrified me as a teen, now it barely registers. Which is not to say this isn't a decent little shocker. Meek, bespectacled Mr. Pruyn preys upon women he doesn't find attractive. To date he's committed six gruesome murders, dipping into his tool-bag for the weapon - knife, wrench - he thinks best suits the circumstances. After the multiple stabbing of his latest victim, Pruyn calmly hands himself in at the Police Station. Of course, Lieutenant Bendix has already has his fill of cretins and attention seekers confessing to the crime and mentally marks this middle-aged jerk down as one of same. But Pruyn seems to know details of the Sloan murder that haven't been released to the press! Just as Bendix thinks he might have his man, Pruyn scuppers his hopes with a load of fantasy detail. He's gently ushered off the premises, uncharged, free to kill again. "That was exciting!" thinks Mr. Pruyn! Barry Malzberg - Agony Column: It begins when Martin Miller, compulsive letter writer and wannabe author, submits his story Three From The Universe to Astounding Spirits magazine, only to have it rejected by an editor who likely never even got to see it. After being fobbed off by all manner of public dignitary, film star, and hack editor who clearly do not read a word of what's sent them, he mails a death threat to the President.
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Post by anand on Oct 31, 2010 15:06:41 GMT
how to read these stories Mayflower 1977Les EdwardsContentsIntroduction The Sawbuck Machine - Frank Sisk Contraband - James Holding For Every Evil - Douglas Farr You Can't Win Em (At) All - Ed Lacy Murder in Mind - C. B Gilford Charley's Charm - Alice-Mary Schnirring Murder Door to Door - Robert Colby Ransom Demand - Jeffrey M. Wallman I'll Race You - Fletcher Flora I am Not a Thief Mr Kester - Gilbert Ralston Mousetrap - Edwin P. Hicks Mildly Murderous - Elijah Ellis An Element of Risk - Richard Deming A Neighborly Observation - Richard Hardwick
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 31, 2010 16:04:44 GMT
how to read these stories From left to right, beginning at the top of the first page in each case.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 2, 2011 19:04:40 GMT
Alfred Hitchcock (ed.) - Down By The Old Bloodstream (Dell, 1971) Alfred Hitchcock - Introduction
Hal Ellson - The Good Thief Fletcher Flora - The Happenstance Snatch Talmage Powell - Lone Witness James Holding - Monkey King Ed Lacy - Lucky Catch Arthur Porges - Janie Zeroes In C. B. Gilford - A Fair Warning To Mystery Writers Richard Hardwick - The Still Small Voice Robert Edmond Alter - Haunted Hill Richard Deming - The Monster Brain Michael Brett - The Wrongo Jack Webb - A Miracle Is Arranged Pat Stadley - Kurdistan Payload Frank Sisk - The Flat MaleBlurb 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.The Hitchcock sub-board never really came to life, so have regrouped all those lonely, single-post threads into this bumper Hitch fest and let's see where that takes us. Down By The Old Bloodstream being all too typical of the bulk, it's not difficult to understand why said sub board didn't meet with any great enthusiasm. If we leave aside the books ghosted by Robert Arthur (fans of horror and supernatural could do a lot worse than giving the likes of Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV and Stories My Mother Never Told Me a go), the majority are essentially crime-orientated, surprisingly bloodless compilations of stories from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. C. B. Gilford - A Fair Warning To Mystery Writers: "I know your kind, Mr. Lamb. I see all the covers on all the books and magazines in the drugstore. There's always girls in mystery stories .... don't I kind of remind you of the girls on those covers? I'm wicked, too, just like those girls ... I'd make a wonderful character for one of your books" Horatio Lamb, the famous mystery story writer, has recently moved into a new apartment and soon all of his neighbours - the retired mobster, the wannabe Juvenile Delinquent, the mousy aspiring authoress - wants to get into his paperbacks. Would-be sex kitten Lavender Green is particularly insistent and when she's murdered the cops figure Lamb for the prime suspect. Begins brightly but fizzles out badly once Lavender's been packed off to the morgue. James Holding - Monkey King: A thief who specialises in jade arrives in Thailand, determined to replace a priceless statue in the Bangkok museum with his cheap home-made glass replica. You'll likely suss the twist ending at least four pages before it arrives. Ed Lacy - Lucky Catch: Jimmy, on a weekend pass from the asylum, decides to spend Saturday night at the ball game where Rocky Burns is attempting to smash the home run record. Jimmy has been reminded by his kindly shrink that, regardless of provocation, under no circumstances must he allow himself to lose his temper. All is well until Rocky smashes the ball into the crowd to land at Jimmy's feet and the pumped-up crowd take to shouting and pointing at him. For a moment I thought we had a forgotten 'sport is horror' candidate on our hands, but Lacy concludes the story with the worst cop out imaginable this side of "it had all been a dream!" Arthur Porges - Janie Zeroes In: Bill Sanford, child prodigy, has been abducted. The kidnappers are threatening to bust his fingers unless dad abstains from tonight's big vote, thereby ensuring the land ring-fenced for a park to pass into the clutches of a local hoodlum. Unfortunately for us, Bill's creepy-crawlie obsessed little sister is another genius - specialist subject: biology. One careful listen to the phone message from Bill and she's located the gang's hideout. Fun Scooby Doo unmasking at the end, but you'd have hoped Porge would have let the corrupt pillar of the community snap the precocious little Lord Fauntleroy's fingers out of spite.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 6, 2012 10:48:45 GMT
Eleanor Sullivan (ed.) - Alfred Hitchcock's Book Of Horror Stories # 9 (Coronet, 1989: orig. Davis, 1976) Nedra Tyre - Killed by Kindness ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, July 1963) John F. Suter - Just a Minor Offense ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 1960) Charlotte Edwards - The Long, Terrible Day ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Apr. 1968) Edward Wellen - Cicero ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Dec 1959) Edward D. Hoch - Winter Run ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan 1965) Henry Slesar - You Can’t Blame Me ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 1961) Joseph Payne Brennan - Death of a Derelict ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 1967) Avram Davidson - Present for Lona ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 1958) Jean Potts - Murderer #2 ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan. 1961) Jack Ritchie - The Third Call ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 1961) Robert Bloch - A Home Away from Home ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 1961) Clayton Matthews - The Handyman ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, April 1967) Hillary Waugh - Nothing But Human Nature ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Dec 1969) C. B. Gilford - Murder, 1990 ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Oct. 1960) Paul W. Fairman - Panther, Panther in the Night ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Nov 1959) As with the few other books i've seen from the series, Alfred Hitchcock's Book Of Spot the Horror Stories would be a far more appropriate title as, for the most part, it's the usual case of recycling murder mysteries from the magazine. Robert Bloch's lunatics have taken over the asylum story A Home Away From Home is familiar from earlier Hitchcock attributed compilations. Joseph Payne Brennan's contribution, Death Of A Derelict, is another from the case files of Lucius Leffing and his sidekick, Brennan. On this occasion, they investigate the final moments of the destitute Joel Karvey who allegedly died in a fall from the Cyclone at Morenda's Fairground on Frolic Beach. Joel's cousin is suing for $100, 000 compensation, but Morenda believes Karvey was murdered. Leffing does his master of disguises bit, raiding the thrift stores for suitable rags to shock a confession from the culprit, who believes he's seeing a ghost.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 6, 2012 12:22:11 GMT
An interesting question in itself is how Alfred Hitchcock came to be associated with "horror" in the public mind.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 6, 2012 19:23:01 GMT
An interesting question in itself is how Alfred Hitchcock came to be associated with "horror" in the public mind. My guess would be that the public happily bought into the ghoulish image he'd deliberately cultivated via all those Alfred Hitchcock Presents ... introductions. Psycho, The Lodger and The Birds probably qualify as "horror", but the one that really got to me in a way that too few genre movies have was Frenzy. Cathleen Jordan - Alfred Hitchcock's Borrowers Of The Night (Curley Large Print, 1983) Donald Olson - The Souvenir Nancy Schachterle - Speak Well for the Dead Jonathan Craig - The Girl in Gold Jack Ritchie - Four on an Alibi Patrick O'Keeffe - The Bag Waldo Carlton Wright - The Green Fly and the Box Donald Honig - Minutes of Terror Arthur Porges - Puddle Bill Pronzini - The Snatch Max Van Derveer - Night Storm Al Nussbaum - The Right Move Lawrence Block – When This Man Dies James Holding - Busman's Holiday Donald E. Westlake - The Feel of the Trigger Elijah Ellis -Public Office Margaret B. Maron - The Beast Within Pauline C. Smith - Where Have You Been, Ross Ivy? Arthur Moore - Bronze Resting Stephen Wasylyk - Dead End Ron Goulart - The Trouble Was Ed Dumonte - The Grapevine Harvest Edward Wellen - Final Acquittal August Derleth - The Adventure of the Haunted LibraryBlurb Murderers and burglars notoriously commit their heinous crimes under the protection of the night. In this collection of dark tales, such black plans are ruthlessly carried out, or at least attempted.These eerie tales are full of shadowy deed and evil intentions. In February 2012, the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel moved from it's crumbling, hugely atmospheric old quarters (as famously featured in James Herbert's The Rats) to new, sterile, thoroughly depressing high-rise premises a few hundred yards along the High Street. As yet, there is no replacement charity shop and I don't suppose there will be, so will prize these large-print editions of Borrowers Of The Night and Bernard Taylor's Since Ruby bought on Feb. 19th/ 20th as final souvenirs of what had become a regular haunt. Borrowers ... was yet another snapped up specifically on the promise of one story, in this instance August Derleth's delightful Solar Pons case file, The Adventure Of The Haunted Library. Ron Goulart's The Trouble Was is a neat murder story set in snowbound Connecticut. A luckless fat slob is getting it in the neck from his wife, tormenting him over her affair with handsome Jerry, a fabulously wealthy businessman with connections to the syndicate. When she deliberately demolishes his makeshift bookcase, he reacts as any other rational person would and caves her skull in with a house-brick. With Jerry due to give evidence at a forthcoming Mafia trial, our man decides that his only hope is to kill him too and make the double homicide look like a Mob hit. Lawrence Block's When This Man Dies reveals the bizarre circumstances under which reckless gambler Edgar Kraft was lured - by mail -into a lucrative new career as a contract killer. Elsewhere, in the collection - haven't found them yet - we're promised stories from the viewpoints of a ghost and a cat.
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