Alfred Hitchcock Presents: This One Will Kill You
$ 12.00
Author: Alfred Hitchcock. ed
Publisher: Dell 18808
Year: 1981 Print: 1 Cover Price: $2.25
Condition: Book Grades. Very Good. Light wear
Genre: Fiction/Horror/Suspense/Crime
Pages: 205
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Instead of a single plotline, the book functions as a "funhouse for fiends", presenting a series of standalone tales centered around bizarre murders, eerie coincidences, psychological horror, and dark irony. True to the famous Alfred Hitchcock Presents television format, the anthology features everyday characters caught in macabre or life-threatening scenarios, usually culminating in a sharp, unexpected twist ending.
The book opens with a characteristically tongue-in-cheek introduction credited to Hitchcock, playfully warning "nice people" to ignore the chills, footsteps, or bitter-almond (cyanide) flavors they might experience while reading.
Some of the notable stories and authors included in the collection are:
- "Six Skinny Coffins" by Jonathan Craig
- "The Clock Is Cuckoo" by Richard Demming
- "Plan 19" by Jack Ritchie
- "His Brother's Caper" by Richard Hardwick
- "The Shunned House" by Robert Edmond Alter
- "Don't Call it Murder" by C.B. Gilford
- "Comfort, in a Land of Strangers" by Michael Brett
