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Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV

by Alfred Hitchcock · 1957

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Contains the following:

Preface by Alfred Hitchcock

Being a Murderer Myself by Arthur Williams

Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White

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The Perfectionist by Margaret St Clair

The Price of the Head by John Russell

Love Comes to Miss Lucy Q. Patrick

Sredni Vashtar by Saki (H.H. Munro)

Love Lies Bleeding by Philip MacDonald

The Dancing Partner by Jerome K. Jerome

Casting the Runes by M.R. James

The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson

How Love Came to Professor Guildea by Robert S. Hichens

The Moment of Decision by Stanley Ellin

A Jungle Graduate by James Francis Dwyer

Recipe for Murder by C.P. Donnel, Jr

Nunc Dimittis by Roald Dahl

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

The Lady on the Grey by John Collier

The Waxwork by A.M. Burrage

The Dumb Wife by Thomas Burke

Couching at the Door by D.K. Broster

The October Game by Ray Bradbury

Water's Edge by Robert Block

The Jokester by Robert Arthur

The Abyss by Leonid Andreyev

Genre
horrorhorrorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1950s1950sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 378 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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