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Post by dem on Dec 1, 2007 14:20:27 GMT
Yes, he sometimes was, as nightreader brought to our attention in his review of The Late Unlamented on the old board. Recently picked up This Days Evil at Zardoz. Got home, read the contents, saw it looked worryingly crime orientated, shook head, thought "I must have been pissed", put it away and forgot about it until now. Sure enough, in tiny print on the on the acknowledgements page: "This selection was edited by Peter Haining from issues of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine published during the last five years in the United States Of America."'Hitchcock' presented several paperbacks for Four Square/ NEL. I'd guess that the majority are crime fiction but it would be nice to know if any are mostly horror & supernatural? There may be more than this: Behind the Locked Door (1966)
Meet Death At Night (1966)
Guarenteed Rest In Peace (1966)
This Days Evil & Other Tales Of Suspense (Jan. 1967)
Anyone For Murder? (1967)
The Late Unlamented (1967)
The Graveyard Man (Oct 1968)
This One Will Kill You (1972)There was also 4-Square edition of the young adult Haunted Houseful (1965) but, as this was a reprint of a 1961 selection for Random House, PH has a water-tight alibi and we will not be pursuing him in connection with this book. Also I suspect Robert Arthur knows more than he's letting on about who really selected the contents for such Hitchcock anthologies as Tales They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV, Stories That Scared Even Me and similar Max Reinhardt/ Pan titles ... Coming soon: Was the Elephant Man the Loch Ness Monster? |
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Post by redbrain on Dec 1, 2007 14:50:07 GMT
Also I suspect Robert Arthur knows more than he's letting on about who really selected the contents for such Hitchcock anthologies as Tales They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV, Stories That Scared Even Me and similar Max Reinhardt/ Pan titles ... I, for one, would like to know who really edited those. Tales They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV has a good claim to have been the start of horror collection, when a kindly elder gave it to me in my early teens. |
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Post by dem on Dec 1, 2007 15:04:52 GMT
redbrain, I think you're in luck! Just found this excellent Arthur biography on Three Investigators and I quote: " .... as well as his knowledge of the pulp magazines in which so many of the classic stories first appeared -- put together a number of Alfred Hitchcock Presents anthologies which included Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories For Late At Night, (1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me, (1963); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not For The Nervous, (1965); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me, (1967); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do On TV, (1968). For each of these, Arthur wrote the “Hitchcock” introduction. "www.threeinvestigators.net/SD.html |
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Post by redbrain on Dec 1, 2007 23:34:55 GMT
Thanks demonik! That's really interesting.  |
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Post by redbrain on Dec 1, 2007 23:40:41 GMT
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do On TV, (1968). Hang about! That date is so wrong! My copy is the first Pan edition (1960) - and has been in my possession since round about that date, too! Looking at the back of the title page, I see that it was originally published in 1957. In fact - I think that all of those dates are wrong. |
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Post by Steve on Dec 2, 2007 2:53:39 GMT
Hang about! That date is so wrong! My copy is the first Pan edition (1960) - and has been in my possession since round about that date, too! Looking at the back of the title page, I see that it was originally published in 1957. In fact - I think that all of those dates are wrong. Quite right about Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do On TV - first published 1957; first Pan edition 1960. The rest look OK though, couldn't find any dates earlier than the ones given; Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories For Late At Night (1961) Seems about right - First British edition was a 1962 hardback (Max Reinhardt), but there was an earlier American 1961 hardcover from Random House. First paperback was Dell (in two parts) - Stories For Late At Night & More Stories For Late At Night, 1962. First Pan (also in two parts) - pt. 1 1964, pt. 2 1965 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories My Mother Never Told Me (1963)  Stories My Mother Never Told Me, Random House 1963Similar story - Random House, 1963; Max Reinhardt, 1964; first Dell paperbacks - Stories My Mother Never Told Me & More Stories My Mother Never Told Me, 1965; Pan - pt. 1 1966, pt. 2 1967  More Stories My Mother Never Told Me, Dell 1965 (1965)  Stories Not For The Nervous, Random House 1965You've probably got the idea by now - Random House, 1965; Max Reinhardt, 1966; Dell paperbacks - Stories Not For The Nervous 1966, More Stories Not For The Nervous 1967; Pan - pt. 1 1968, pt. 2 1969  Stories Not For The Nervous part two, Pan 1969 (1967) Random House, 1967; Max Reinhardt, 1968; Dell paperbacks - Scream Along With Me: Tales From Stories That Scared Even Me 1970, Slay Ride: More Tales from Stories That Scared Even Me 1971; Pan - pt. 1 1970, pt. 2 1971 |
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Post by Steve on Dec 2, 2007 4:42:08 GMT
'Hitchcock' presented several paperbacks for Four Square/ NEL. I'd guess that the majority are crime fiction but it would be nice to know if any are mostly horror & supernatural? Well, the full title of Anyone For Murder? is Anyone For Murder? and other tales of crime, so I'm guessing that's mostly crime but you never know... Can't provide contents lists for the Four Square/NEL books mentioned, but this may help; Dell also published a book in their "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" series called, This One Will Kill You, 1971 ("You'll have a screaming good time when Alfie tickles your horror bone") which I'm assuming is more or less the same as the NEL edition. Contents were as follows (not at all sure about that cover...); His Brother's Caper by Richard Hardwick Fair Shake by John Lutz Six Skinny Coffins by Jonathan Craig The Clock is Cuckoo by Richard Deming Plan 19 by Jack Ritchie The Misopedist by James Holding Item by Henry Slesar The Shunned House by Robert Edmond Alter Don't Call it Murder by C. B. Gifford Comfort in a Land of Strangers by Michael Brett Where Credit is Due by Hal Ellson Variations on an Episode by Fletcher Flora Voice in the Night by Robert Colby And earlier, Dell published another collection bearing Hitchcock's name with the title Noose Report. As well as "The Late Unlamented", it included other stories which I believe also appeared in the Four Square/NEL Hitchcock books (quite like the cover on this one); The Late Unlamented by Jonathan Craig Holdout by Jack Ritchie The Little Things by Ed Lacy Make Your Pitch by Borden Deal The Trouble with Ruth by Henry Slesar Contents: One Body by C. B. Gilford The Promotion by Richard Deming Others Deal in Death by August Derleth The Short and Simple Annals by Dan J. Marlowe Something Very Special by Fletcher Flora A Very Cautious Boy by Gilbert Ralston The World's Oldest Motive by Laurence M. Janifer High Tide by Richard Hardwick A Home Away from Home by Robert Bloch If you compare these contents lists with the list of stories in nightreader's post on The Late Unlamented, you'll see a few of the same names cropping up. They should hopefully give you some idea of the crime to horror ratio involved. |
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Post by redbrain on Dec 2, 2007 8:58:19 GMT
On the subject of Alfred Hitchcock, there is a blue plaque on a petrol station, a short walk from where I live, saying that it's built on the site of Alfred Hitchcock's birthplace.
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Post by dem on Dec 2, 2007 10:04:12 GMT
Really appreciate you sharing that with us, Steve. The only story I recognise from those you've listed is Robert Bloch's A Home Away From Home which I've always considered to be the germ for the framing story in Asylum. Appearances can be deceptive but the rest give me a very strong crime-y vibe and we're on far safer ground with the Robert Arthur-ghosted trio Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV, ... Mother Didn't Tell Me and ... Scared Even Me (not seen the rest). I've the Reinhardt editions of My Favourites In Suspense (a mix of crime and horror) and Stories To Be Read With The Lights On (very very crime), both worth a look but not as must-have as the above named, IMO. The Haining's are probably of the greatest appeal to Haining/ Four Square completists, I guess. For the record: Alfred Hitchcock - This Days Evil (Four Square, 1967)  Philippe Halsman
August Derleth - The Story Of The Intarsia Box
Robert Sheckley - Pousse Cafe
Henry Slesar - How To Stop Smoking
Borden Deal - Get-Away
Jack Ritchie - The Travelling Arm
Arthur Porges - The Missing Bow
Hal Ellson - The Pulque Vendor
De Forbes - Flora Africana
Bryce Walton - Never Hang Another
Mann Rubin - The Alibi-Makers
Jonathan Craig - This Day's Evil
Donald Westlake - The Sound Of Murder
Francis Swann - I Still Scream
Jay Street - The Painless Method
C. B. Gilford - Deduct One Wife
Douglas Campbell - Fiesta Time
Jack Ritchie - Where The Finger PointsWell, there are other books that didn't inspire me with confidence but turned out OK so who's to say? The Deleth's one of his Solar Pons outings and made the Oriental Tales Of Terror anthology but that could well be it for the horror content. Sheckley, Porges and the staggeringly prolific Slesar are all accomplished genre hoppers, equally at home with each, so if they're writing for something called Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine it's a fair bet they'll take the 'Mystery' bit as their guideline. Bryce Walton wrote an excellent voodoo story, The Devil Doll, for Dime Mystery which Bill Pronzini happily revived for his Tales Of The Dead monsterpiece (Book Club, 1987). |
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Post by weirdmonger on Mar 14, 2008 21:15:33 GMT
I bought the above hardback this morning for £1.50 in Frinton-on-Sea. Max Reinhardt Limted (1957). Book in reasonable condition. Dustwrapper as seen below. BEING A MURDERER MYSELF by Arthur Williams 1 LUKUNDOO by Edward Lucas White 15 A WOMAN SELDOM FOUND by William Sansom 30 THE PERFECTIONIST by Margaret St. Clair 34 THE PRICE OF THE HEAD by John Russell 47 LOVE COMES TO MISS LUCY by Q. Patrick 59 SREDNI VASHTAR by "Saki" (H. H. Munro) 73 LOVE LIES BLEEDING by Philip MacDonald 78 THE DANCING PARTNER by Jerome K. Jerome 102 CASTING THE RUNES by M. R. James 109 THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT by William Hope Hodgson 130 HOW LOVE CAME TO PROFESSOR GUILDEA by Robert S. H ichens 143 THE MOMENT OF DECISION by Stanley Ellin 188 A JUNGLE GRADUATE by James Francis Dwyer 212 RECIPE FOR MURDER by C. P. Donnel, Jr. 223 NUNC DIMITTIS by Roald Dahl 228 THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME by Richard Connell 250 THE LADY ON THE GREY by John Collier 272 THE WAXWORK by A. M. Burrage 280 THE DUMB WIFE by Thomas Burke 293 COUCHING AT THE DOOR by D. K. Broster 303 THE OCTOBER GAME by Ray Bradbury 326 WATER'S EDGE by Robert Bloch 334 THE JOKESTER by Robert Arthur 351 THE ABYSS by Leonid Andreyev 359 |
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Post by stephenbacon on Jun 7, 2008 7:24:53 GMT
Funnily enough, when I was a child I borrowed a book from our library called The Vampire Terror and Other True Mysteries, edited by Peter Haining. It contained a tale called The Zombie of Glad Wish Wood, which I attribute to being the germ that grew into my love for horror, and my desire to write.
One of the books I also took out at the same time as TVT was This Day's Evil (mainly because of the link to Alfred Hitchcock - I was a huge Three Investigators fan), and then I started to read all of the other Hitchcock anthologies.
I never knew before that TDE was edited by Peter Haining. What a man!
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Post by dem on Jun 9, 2008 7:19:52 GMT
Hope this brings back happy memories, Stephen! Peter Haining - The Vampire Terror & Other True Mysteries (Armada, 1981)  Eric Kincaid Blurb: Strange - but terrifyingly true! Ten of the world's weirdest mysteries ....
The blood-sucking fiends that massacred a ship's crew ... the decaying skull that refused to die .... the hideous space monster that invaded earth .... the man who wrestled with a zombie ....
And more bizarre stories which have baffled the human race!There are at least another four books in the series although I'm not sure they were all edited by Haining? |
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Post by stephenbacon on Jun 9, 2008 22:38:45 GMT
Aah, the memories came flooding back - Rubiks cubes, the miner's strike, Peter Haining anthologies...
Happy Days indeed!
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Post by allthingshorror on Sept 8, 2008 18:44:32 GMT
Another Felixstowe charity shop find - there were about ten others, but I didn't buy them as they were all crime related ones. I suppose they'll still be there if anyone wants me to try and pick them up. It does say on the acknowledgements page that the invaluable assistance of Harlold Q. Masur was used in the preparation of the volume.  CORONET 1978 CONTENTS:Hijack - Robert L Fish The Odor of Melting - Edward D Hoch Light Verse - Issac Asimov Funeral in Another Town - Jerry Jacobson A Good Head For Murder - Charles W. Runyon A Case for Quiet - William Jeffrey Royal Jelly - Roald Dahl The Invisible Cat - Betty Ren Wright The Distributor - Richard Matheson The Income Tax Mystery - Michael Gilbert How Henry J Littlefinger Licked the Hippies Scheme to Take Over the Country by Tossing Pot in the Postage Stamp Glue - John Keefauver Little Foxes Sleep Warm - Waldo Carlton Wright The Leak - Jaques Futrelle All The Sounds of Fear - Harlan Ellison The Graft is Green - Harold Q Masur |
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Post by vaughan on Sept 23, 2009 18:12:08 GMT
I found a copy of "This Day's Evil" today.  I'll probably give it a look through at some point - but I mostly bought it because I thought there might be someone on this site who'd want a copy. Worse case, I'll read it myself. ;D |
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