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Alfred Hitchcock’s A Brief Darkness (Castle, October 1988, 1-55521-352-9, $7.98, 379pp, hc, an)     The majority of the stories listed on the acknowledgements page for this book are from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery by the Tale. 9 · Introduction · [uncredited] · in 10 · Ley de Fuga · Brad Williams · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1963 26 · A Piece of the World · Jack Ritchie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1965 35 · A Murderous Slice · Marguerite Dickinson · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1964 48 · High Tide · Richard H. Hardwick · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1963 58 · Number One Suspect · Richard Deming · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1962 75 · Some Lucky License · Charles Willeford · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1965 84 · A Habit for the Voyage · Robert Edmond Alter · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1964 93 · Diminishing Wife · Michael Zuroy · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1962 102 · Jambalaya · Douglas Craig · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1964 120 · Tight Fix · Harold Rolseth · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1965 126 · Homicide, Maybe · Lawrence Treat · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1963 137 · The Sunburned Fisherman [Lieutenant Randall] · James Holding · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1964 146 · The Sheriff’s Rainy Day · Elijah Ellis · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1965 157 · Hijack · Max Van Derveer · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1965 176 · Dream of a Murder · C. B. Gilford · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1965 184 · Blood Will Tell · Arthur Porges · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1964 189 · The Mark of Cain · Allen Kim Lang · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1965 198 · “A.C. from E.B.” · Lee Millar & Wayne Hamilton · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1965 208 · Crime Buff · James H. Schmitz · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1973 226 · Small Town Justice · Leo R. Ellis · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1964 240 · Man with a Hobby · Carroll Mayers · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1965 245 · Obligations · Beatrice S. Smith · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1975 252 · $16,940.00 · Larry Niven · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1974 255 · Bertillon’s Odds · Talmage Powell · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1962 262 · The Zigzag Line · Don Tothe · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1965 271 · Something for the Club · Pat Stadley · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1962 277 · The Park Plaza Thefts · Ernest Savage · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1978 296 · Waiting for the Coroner · Gary Brandner · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1979 301 · Ruby Martinson’s Poisoned Pen [Ruby Martinson] · Henry Slesar · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1960 311 · The Desperate Theft · Stephen Wasylyk · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1978 322 · The Girl from Ishikawa [Lady Aoi] · Ann F. Woodward · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1 1980 332 · The Gun Law · Brian Garfield · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1977 340 · A Bully’s Downfall · John H. Dirckx · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1978 357 · A Matter of Arson · Lawrence Treat · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1978 368 · Faithful Viewer · Miel Tanburn · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 2 1980 374 · Alternate · Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1975

Alfred Hitchcock’s Daring Detectives ed. Robert Arthur, uncredited (Random House, 1969, 208pp, hc, an) 3 · The Day the Children Vanished · Hugh Pentecost · nv This Week April 20 1958 (+2), as “The Children Vanished” 30 · Through a Dead Man’s Eye · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask December 1939 57 · The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch March 28 1923 71 · Green Ice [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss The Chicago Tribune April 13 1941, as “The Riddle of the Green Ice” 88 · The Grave Grass Quivers · MacKinlay Kantor · ss The Elks Magazine July 1931 104 · The Case of the Irate Witness [Perry Mason] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Collier’s January 17 1953 120 · Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse [Solar Pons] · August Derleth · nv The Pursuit Detective Story Magazine #18, November 1956, as “The Curse” 140 · The Headmaster [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · ss Argosy (UK) June 1962 153 · The Adventure of the Seven Black Cats [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Mystery October 1934, as “The Black Cats Vanished” 174 · The Wicked Cousin [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv The American Magazine October 1936, as “The Saint in Hollywood” 193 · The Footprint in the Sky [Colonel March] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine January 1940, as “Clue in the Snow” by Carter Dickson

Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghostly Gallery ed. Robert Arthur, uncredited (Random House, 1962, $3.95, 206pp, hc, an)     Eleven Spooky Stories for Young People. Also available in tp (Random House 1984). Published in UK by Max Reinhardt (1966) and in pb by Puffin (1967). v · Introduction · Alfred Hitchcock · in 1 · Miss Emmeline Takes Off · Walter R. Brooks · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 8 1945 20 · The Valley of the Beasts · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Wolves of God by Algernon Blackwood & Wilfred Wilson, Cassell & Co., 1921 43 · The Haunted Trailer · Robert Arthur · nv Weird Tales January 1942, as “Death Thumbs a Ride” 64 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 88 · The Wonderful Day · Robert Arthur · nv Argosy July 6 1940, as “Miracle on Main Street” 120 · The Truth About Pyecraft · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine April 1903 133 · Housing Problem · Henry Kuttner · ss Charm October 1944 151 · In a Dim Room [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss The (London) Evening News July 18 1945 156 · Obstinate Uncle Otis [Murchison Morks] · Robert Arthur · ss Argosy July 19 1941 167 · The Waxwork · A. M. Burrage · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931, as by Ex-Private X 182 · The Isle of Voices · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The National Observer February 4 1893

Alfred Hitchcock’s Haunted Houseful ed. Muriel Fuller, uncredited (Random House, 1961, LC:61-11731, 208pp, hc, an)     Also available in tp (Random House 1985). Published in UK by Max Reinhardt (1962) and in pb by NEL (1966) with stories in different sequence. Aimed primarily at younger readers. iii · Introduction · Alfred Hitchcock · in 1 · Let’s Haunt a House · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Boys’ Life October 1947 13 · The Wastwych Secret · Constance Savery · ss (r) 25 · Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons · Walter R. Brooks · ss Story Parade 1950 37 · The Mystery of Rabbit Run · Jack Bechdolt · nv 1946 72 · Forgotten Island · Elizabeth Coatsworth · nv Story Parade 1942 100 · The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly June 27 1891 109 · The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine August 1891 135 · The Treasure in the Cave · Mark Twain · ex from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, American Pub. Co., 1876 196 · The Mystery in Four-and-a-Half Street · Donald & Louise Peattie · ss Youth’s Companion Combined with The American Boy November 1931

Alfred Hitchcock’s Monster Museum ed. Robert Arthur, uncredited (Random House, 1965, $3.95, 207pp, hc, an) · A Variety of Monsters · Alfred Hitchcock · in 1 · The Day of the Dragon · Guy Endore · nv The Blue Book Magazine June 1934 29 · The King of the Cats · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss Harper’s Bazar February 1929 46 · Slime · Joseph Payne Brennan · nv Weird Tales March 1953 73 · The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles · Idris Seabright · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1951 79 · Henry Martindale, Great Dane · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction March 1954 95 · The Microscopic Giants · Paul Ernst · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories October 1936 114 · The Young One · Jerome Bixby · nv Fantastic April 1954 144 · Doomsday Deferred · Will F. Jenkins · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 24 1949 162 · Shadow, Shadow, on the Wall · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Imagination February 1951 174 · The Desrick on Yandro [Silver John] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1952 188 · The Wheelbarrow Boy · Richard Parker · ss Lilliput October 1950 193 · Homecoming [The Elliott Family] · Ray Bradbury · ss Mademoiselle October 1946

Alfred Hitchcock’s Monster Museum (var. 1) ed. Robert Arthur, uncredited (Random House, 1982, 0-394-84899-3, $2.50, 213pp, tp, an)     Revised from the original (Random House 1965) edition by the removal of two stories. ix · A Variety of Monsters · Alfred Hitchcock · in Alfred Hitchcock’s Monster Museum, Random House, 1965 3 · Slime · Joseph Payne Brennan · nv Weird Tales March 1953 40 · The King of the Cats · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss Harper’s Bazar February 1929 62 · The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles · Idris Seabright · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1951 70 · Henry Martindale, Great Dane · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction March 1954 90 · Shadow, Shadow, on the Wall · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Imagination February 1951 105 · Doomsday Deferred · Will F. Jenkins · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 24 1949 129 · The Young One · Jerome Bixby · nv Fantastic April 1954 169 · The Desrick on Yandro [Silver John] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1952 188 · The Wheelbarrow Boy · Richard Parker · ss Lilliput October 1950 194 · Homecoming [The Elliott Family] · Ray Bradbury · ss Mademoiselle October 1946

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Stories #1 (Bonomo, 1979, 101, 39¢, 64pp, 3¼″ x 5″ s/s, an, cover by Paula Blasband) 5 · Nothing Short of Highway Robbery · Lawrence Block · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1977 36 · Here Comes Mr. Pritchard · S. S. Rafferty · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1976 44 · A Shroud for the Railroad Man · Alvin S. Fick · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1977

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery by the Tale (Castle, October 1988, 1-55521-351-0, $9.98, 374pp, hc, an)     The majority of the stories listed on the acknowledgements page for this book are from Alfred Hitchcock’s A Brief Darkness. 9 · Stately Ruins · Frank Sisk · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1978 20 · The Small Hours [Sam Train] · Ernest Savage · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1976 37 · Drawer 14 · Talmage Powell · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1965 45 · The Unstained Code · George Grover Kipp · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1973 53 · Next in Line · Jack Ritchie · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1976 71 · A Little Time Off · Stephen Wasylyk · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1969 81 · Understanding Electricity · John Lutz · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1975 85 · False Alarm · Anne Morice · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1979 96 · Flight of the Sparrow · Gerald Tomlinson · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1978 109 · Martha Myers, Movie Star · Raymond Mason · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1957 117 · Happy as a Harp Song · Pauline C. Smith · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1975 130 · Meditations Upon a Murder · Donald Martin · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1959 135 · You Can Die Laughing · Robert Arthur · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1958 145 · Beware: Dangerous Man · C. B. Gilford · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1958 161 · The Fanatical Ford · Arthur Porges · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1960 166 · A Grave on the Indragiri · Alvin S. Fick · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1978 180 · It Started Most Innocently · O. H. Leslie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1959 188 · Last of the Big-Time Spenders · Duffy Carpenter · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1976 197 · Parlor Game [D. Stonebreaker] · Gary Brandner · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1976 210 · Albert and the Amateurs · Len Gray · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1973 215 · Thin Air [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1979 230 · Typed for Murder · Nedra Tyre · ss The Diners Club Magazine 1966 239 · Make My Death Bed · Babs H. Deal · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1960 248 · Murder on the Edinburgh-London Express [Dr. John Thorndyke] · John H. Dirckx · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 8 1980 263 · A Woman’s Work Is Never Done · Helen Fislar Brooks · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1961 270 · Home Ground · A. F. Oreshnik · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1975 281 · The Letter Carrier · Kathryn Gottlieb · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1979 290 · The World According to Uncle Albert · Penelope Wallace · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 8 1980 303 · Requiem for Three Sharks · T. M. Adams · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1979 313 · When the Sheriff Walked · Jack Ritchie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1974 321 · Korda · Albert F. Nussbaum · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1977 332 · Silver Spectre [unnamed journalist] · Jon L. Breen · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 26 1980 340 · The Prodigal Brother · William Bankier · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1978 361 · Death in the Barrio [Carlos Bannon] · Kenneth Gavrell · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 18 1980

Alfred Hitchcock’s Sinister Spies ed. Robert Arthur, uncredited (Random House, 1966, 206pp, hc, an)     Also in an abridged tp edition (Random House 1982). · Spies and Otherwise · Alfred Hitchcock · in 3 · The Strange Drug of Dr. Caber [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss The Fourth Book of Jorkens by Lord Dunsany, Jarrolds, 1947 10 · The Army of the Shadows · Eric Ambler · ss The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross, Hodder & Stroughton, 1939 31 · The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine December 1908 65 · “Somewhere in France” · Richard Harding Davis · nv Metropolitan June 1915 88 · The Traitor [Ashenden] · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan September 1927 128 · Code No. 2 · Edgar Wallace · ss The Strand Magazine April 1916 146 · The Problem Solver and the Spy [Richard Verner, heuristician] · Christopher Anvil · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1965 154 · The Uninvited [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · ss Argosy December 1960 166 · QL 696.C9 [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1943 183 · Legacy of Danger [Selena Mead] · Patricia McGerr · ss This Week October 6 1963 193 · Citizen in Space · Robert Sheckley · ss Playboy September 1955, as “Spy Story”

Alfred Hitchcock’s Sinister Spies (var. 1) ed. Robert Arthur, uncredited (Random House, 1982, 0-394-84901-9, 215pp, tp, an)     Abridged from the original edition (Random House 1966) by the removal of the Sherlock Holmes story. vii · Spies and Otherwise · Alfred Hitchcock · in 1966 1 · The Strange Drug of Dr. Caber [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss The Fourth Book of Jorkens by Lord Dunsany, Jarrolds, 1947 8 · The Army of the Shadows · Eric Ambler · ss The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross, Hodder & Stroughton, 1939 34 · “Somewhere in France” · Richard Harding Davis · nv Metropolitan June 1915 64 · The Traitor [Ashenden] · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan September 1927 117 · Code No. 2 · Edgar Wallace · ss The Strand Magazine April 1916 139 · The Problem Solver and the Spy [Richard Verner, heuristician] · Christopher Anvil · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1965 149 · The Uninvited [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · ss Argosy December 1960 164 · QL 696.C9 [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1943 185 · Legacy of Danger [Selena Mead] · Patricia McGerr · ss This Week October 6 1963 199 · Citizen in Space · Robert Sheckley · ss Playboy September 1955, as “Spy Story”

Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbinders in Suspense ed. Robert Arthur, uncredited (Random House, 1967, LC:67-20603, 206pp, hc, an) · A Brief Message from Our Sponsor · Alfred Hitchcock · in 1 · The Chinese Puzzle Box [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch October 3 1923, as “The Case of the Veiled Lady” 11 · The Most Dangerous Game · Richard Edward Connell · nv Collier’s January 19 1924 32 · The Birds · Daphne du Maurier · nv Good Housekeeping October 1952 65 · Puzzle for Poppy [Peter Duluth; Iris Duluth] · Patrick Quentin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #27, February 1946 79 · Eyewitness · Robert Arthur · ss 1951 revised from “Eye Witness” (Detective Fiction Weekly January 28, 1939). 94 · Man from the South · Roald Dahl · ss Collier’s September 4 1948, as “Collector’s Item” 105 · Black Magic [Bazarada] · Sax Rohmer · ss Collier’s February 5 1938 119 · Treasure Trove · F. Tennyson Jesse · ss McCall’s Magazine April 1928 126 · Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales July 1943 146 · The Treasure Hunt [J. G. Reeder] · Edgar Wallace · ss Flynn’s November 22 1924 162 · The Man Who Knew How [Pender] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1932 175 · The Dilemma of Grampa Dubois · Clayre & Michel Lipman · ss The American Magazine 1952 182 · P. Moran, Diamond-Hunter [P. Moran] · Percival Wilde · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #29, April 1946

Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbinders in Suspense (var. 1) ed. Robert Arthur, uncredited (Random House, 1982, 0-394-84900-0, $2.50, 213pp, tp, an)     Abridged from the original edition (Random House 1967) by the removal of 4 stories. ix · A Brief Message from Our Sponsor · Alfred Hitchcock · in 1967 3 · The Man Who Knew How [Pender] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1932 22 · The Most Dangerous Game · Richard Edward Connell · nv Collier’s January 19 1924 53 · The Treasure Hunt [J. G. Reeder] · Edgar Wallace · ss Flynn’s November 22 1924 78 · Man from the South · Roald Dahl · ss Collier’s September 4 1948, as “Collector’s Item” 94 · Puzzle for Poppy [Peter Duluth; Iris Duluth] · Patrick Quentin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #27, February 1946 114 · Treasure Trove · F. Tennyson Jesse · ss McCall’s Magazine April 1928 123 · Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales July 1943 153 · The Dilemma of Grampa Dubois · Clayre & Michel Lipman · ss The American Magazine 1952 162 · The Birds · Daphne du Maurier · nv Good Housekeeping October 1952