12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV

by · 1957

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Some books are meant for childish eyes. Others are tailored for readers with delicate sensibilities and fragile nerves. Still others can be safely scanned befor going to sleep at night. This book, however, is not one of them. For when Alfred Hitchcock is the man in charge, you can be sure of a feast designed to please the strongest appetite for pure horror and unadulterated evil!

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CONTENTS

Being a murderer myself / by Arthur Williams —

Lukundoo / by Edward Lucas White —

A woman seldom found / by William Sansom —

The perfectionist / by Margaret St. Clair —

The price of the head / by John Russell —

Love comes to Miss Lucy / by Q. Patrick —

Srendi Vashtar / by Saki —

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.

Genre
horror
Setting
1950s
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages
Form
short stories

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