Alfred Hitchcock Stories Not For the Nervous Hardcover Book Random House 1965

This listing is for Alfred Hitchcock Stories Not For the Nervous Hardcover Book Random House 1965.  

Publisher: Random House

Publication date: January 1, 1965

Language: English

Print length: 363 pages

ISBN-10: 0848827848

ISBN-13: 978-0848827847

Condition: No Dust Jacket, Overall Very Good

Here is the brand new collection of the inimitable Mr. H's selection of macabre and horrifying tales, twenty short stories, three novelettes, and one complete novel. This hardcover volume contains twenty short stories, three novelettes and one novel. In my opinion, twenty (83%) of the stories are above average for this genre, including six that are very good. The very good stories are: “Levitation” by Joseph Payne Brennan, “Don’t Look Behind You” by Fredric Brown, “The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes” by Margaret St. Clair, “For All the Rude People” by Jack Ritchie, “Lemmings” by Richard Matheson, and “The Substance of Martyrs” by William Sambrot. There are twelve hardback volumes in the “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (AHP) anthology series. In terms of quality, they fall in four distinct tiers. This volume is in the top tier. Listed in order of preference, the five volumes in the top tier are: 1) Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV, 2) Stories Not for the Nervous, 3) My Favorites in Suspense, 4) Stories My Mother Never Told Me, and 5) A Month of Mystery. The second-tier volumes include: 6) Stories to Stay Awake By, and 7) Stories for Late at Night. The third-tier volumes include: 8) Stories that Scared Even Me, 9) Stories to be Read with the Lights On, and 10) Stories to be Read with the Door Locked. The fourth-tier volumes include: 11) Stories that Go Bump in the Night, and 12) The Master’s Choice. Note: Between 1940 and 2000, nearly 170 anthologies of short stories were published using Alfred Hitchcock’s name as a promotional device. Between 1957 and 1979, 45 short story anthologies were published with the specific phrase “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” in the title. Twelve were hardbacks and 33 were paperbacks. Of the 33 paperbacks, 25 reproduced stories from the hardbacks. The other eight paperbacks were not derived from the hardbacks.

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