Alfred Hitchcock’s Fireside Book of Suspense ed. Alfred Hitchcock (Simon & Schuster, 1947, $3.50, x+367pp, hc, an)
Expanded from Suspense Stories (Dell 1945).
- vii · The Quality of Suspense · Alfred Hitchcock · pr (r)
- 3 · The Second-Class Passenger · P. Gibbon · ss McClure’s Magazine October 1906
- 18 · The News in English · Graham Greene · ss This Week April 14 1940
- 28 · Leiningen Versus the Ants · Carl Stephenson · nv Esquire December 1938
translated from the German (“Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen”, 1937).
- 51 · If You Don’t Get Excited · Edwin Corle · ts from Desert Country, Duell, Sloane, Pearce, 1941
- 66 · Fire in the Galley Stove · William Outerson · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1937
- 80 · The Liqueur Glass · Phyllis Bottome · ss The Smart Set March 1915
- 88 · The Alarm Bell · Donald Henderson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #23, July 1945
- 96 · The Room on the Fourth Floor · Ralph Straus · ss The American Magazine December 1912
- 106 · With Bated Breath · R. Santee · ss Collier’s April 13 1935
- 112 · Flood on the Goodwins · Arthur D. Divine · ss 1933
- 123 · Sunset · Sidney Herschel Small · ss Adventure February 1 1927
- 144 · The House of Ecstasy · Ralph Milne Farley · ss Weird Tales April 1938
- 154 · The Hangman Won’t Wait [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · pl Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #18, September 1944
first broadcast on Suspense, CBS radio, February 9, 1943.
- 171 · The Second Step · Margery Sharp · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1934
- 181 · After-Dinner Story [Hardecker] · William Irish · nv Black Mask January 1938, as by Cornell Woolrich
- 206 · The Tunnel · John Metcalfe · ss The Outlook March 14 1925
- 215 · Triggers in Leash · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss The Frontier July 1925
- 225 · The Blue Paper · Albert Payson Terhune · vi The Saturday Review of Literature October 25 1941, as “Who Wrote This? Mysterious Blue Paper”
- 227 · The Three Good Witnesses · Harold Lamb · ss The Blue Book Magazine January 1945
- 243 · R.M.S. Titanic · Hanson W. Baldwin · ar Harper’s Magazine January 1934
- 258 · The Ringed Word · T. O. Beachcroft · ss The Criterion July 1933
- 268 · Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales July 1943
- 287 · The Baby in the Icebox · James M. Cain · ss The American Mercury January 1933
- 304 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1)
- 318 · Smee · Ex-Private X · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine December 1929, as by A. M. Burrage
- 330 · His Brother’s Keeper · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Strand Magazine December 1922
- 342 · Elementals · Stephen Vincent Benét · nv Cosmopolitan April 1922
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