Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside Book of Suspense Stories

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Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside Book of Suspense Stories

• published in 1947 in the USA by Simon & Schuster (hardback)

Contents

• The Quality of Suspense by Alfred Hitchcock (ghost written)
• The Second-Class Passenger by Perceval Gibbon
• The News in English by Graham Greene
• Leiningen Versus the Ants novelette by Carl Stephenson (translation of "Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen" 1937)
• If You Don't Get Excited by Edwin Corle
• Fire in the Galley Stove by William Outerson
• The Liqueur Glass by Phyllis Bottome
• The Alarm Bell by Donald Henderson
• The Room on the Fourth Floor by Ralph Straus
• With Bated Breath by Ross Santee
• Flood on the Goodwins by A.D. Divine
• Sunset by Sidney Herschel Small
• The House of Ecstasy by Ralph Milne Farley
• The Hangman Won't Wait by John Dickson Carr
• The Second Step by Margery Sharp
• After-Dinner Story by Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)
• The Tunnel by John Metcalfe
• Triggers in Leash by Allan Vaughan Elston
• The Blue Paper by Albert Payson Terhune
• The Three Good Witnesses by Harold Lamb
• R. M. S. Titanic by Hanson W. Baldwin (as Hanson Baldwin)
• The Ringed Word by T.P. Beachcroft
• Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper by Robert Bloch
• The Baby in the Icebox by James M. Cain
• Two Bottles of Relish by Lord Dunsany
• Smee by A.M. Burrage (as Ex-Private X)
• His Brother's Keeper by W.W. Jacobs
• Elementals novelette by Stephen Vincent Benét

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Notes

• The first hardback book to use Alfred Hitchcock's name.
• Several of the stories appeared previously in Suspense Stories: Collected by Alfred Hitchcock (1945)
• In his article "Hitchcock's Hidden Pictures", D.A. Miller notes that Guy Haines is reading a copy of "Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside Book of Suspense Stories" at the start of Strangers on a Train (1951) when he is interrupted by Bruno
• Triggers in Leash was adapted as an "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode in 1955

Links

• The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Casual Debris - An Alfred Hitchcock Anthology Bibliography

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