Be afraid—be very afraid: the master of suspense is serving up 58 bloodcurdling tales for your delectation. These suspenseful stories all appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and in the words of Hitch himself, they “are guaranteed to chill and unnerve.” Bill Pronzini contributes “The Arrowmont Prison Riddle,” Margaret B. Maron has “A Very Special Talent,” Barry M. Malzberg offers “A Home Away from Home,” and Patricia Matthews chronicles “The Fall of Dr. Scourby.” Meet a girl who stalks Jack the Ripper, a clairvoyant writer of newspaper obituaries, a homicidal partygoer in a sanatorium, and a police detective who lives vicariously through the exploits of one of his most notorious suspects: they all populate these frightening pages. Caution: not recommended for late-night reading—except for the very brave!
Includes the following 58 stories:
NEDRA TYRE - Killed by Kindness
JOHN F. SUTER - Just a Minor Offense
ROBERT BLOCH - A Home Away from Home
JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN - Death of a Derelict
BILL PRONZINI - The Arrowmont Prison Riddle
LAWRENCE BLOCK - The Dettweiler Solution
VINCENT McCONNOR - The Whitechapel Wantons
ISAK ROMUN - Cora’s Raid
NELSON DeMILLE - Life or Breath
WILLIAM BRITTAIN - A Private Little War
JOHN LUTZ - Have You Ever Seen This Woman?
BRIAN GARFIELD - Joe Cutter’s Game
JOHN COYNE - A Cabin in the Woods
EDWARD WELLEN - The Long Arm of El Jefe
JACK RITCHIE - Kid Cardula
JAMES HOLDING - Career Man
LIBBY MacCALL - The Perfidy of Professor Blake
HENRY SLESAR - Sea Change
DONALD OLSON - The Blue Tambourine
WILLIAM P. McGIVERN - Graveyard Shift
BORDEN DEAL - A Bottle of Wine
DONALD HONIG - Man Bites Dog
MICHAEL ZUROY - Never Trust an Ancestor
EDWARD D. HOCH - Another War
ALICE SCANLAN REACH - Sparrow on a String
CLAYTON MATTHEWS - The Missing Tattoo
PATRICIA MATTHEWS - The Fall of Dr. Scourby
STEPHEN WASYLYK - The Loose End
FRANK SISK - That So-Called Laugh
MARGARET B. MARON - A Very Special Talent
BETTY REN WRIGHT - The Joker
HELEN NIELSEN - The Very Hard Sell
RON GOULART - The Tin Ear
CHARLOTTE EDWARDS - The Time Before the Crime
BARRY N. MALZBERG - After the Unfortunate Accident
PATRICK O’KEEFE - The Grateful Thief
TALMAGE POWELL - The Inspiration
ROBERT COLBY - Death Is a Lonely Lover
FLETCHER FLORA - The Witness Was a Lady
PAULINE C. SMITH - Scheme for Destruction
MARY BRAUND - To the Manner Born
RICHARD O. LEWIS - Black Disaster
HAL ELLSON - The Marrow of Justice
IRVING SCHIFFER - Innocent Witness
SAMUEL W. TAYLOR - We’re Really Not That Kind of People
HAROLD Q. MASUR - Pocket Evidence
S. S. RAFFERTY - The Death Desk
AL NUSSBAUM - A Left-Handed Profession
THEODORE MATHIESON - Second Spring
ARTHUR PORGES - Bank Night
BRYCE WALTON - The Contagious Killer
GARY BRANDNER - Bad Actor
MICHAEL BRETT - Free Advice, Incorporated
JAMES M. GILMORE - The Real Criminal
WILLIAM DOLAN - The Hard Sell
BOB BRISTOW - The Prosperous Judds
ROBERT W. ALEXANDER - The Dead Indian
AUGUST DERLETH - The China Cottage