Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (November 1963)
cover by Marguerite Blair Deacon |
Details
- journal: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (November 1963)
- issue: volume 8, number 11
Introduction
Dear Readers:
Since the first showing of THE BIRDS many moviegoers are convinced I have supernatural powers and can produce a flock of feathered friends wherever I go. I don't wish to disabuse such confidence nor fall from such celestial heights on the wing of their disillusionment, but I must.
Halloween, haunted houses, ghost stores and supernatural manifestations are synonymous. For me they can be calamitous. Hence my appeal to the Boys in Blue each Halloween, and my subsequent incarceration during All Saints' Eve. Here is where I sing a few old songs with the fellows in the constabulary and then return to the safety of my home after the bougainvillea bushes, the high ixora hedge, the patio and garage are checked for anti-Hitchcock merrymakers.
We admit it's all fun until my wife tells me a ghost story and then I'm certain I've heard someone in the house as in August Derleth's story, ADVENTURE OF THE HAUNTED HOUSE, in this issue. This story and Michael Zuroy's, THE AWFUL EXPERIMENT, should supply horripilant material to spook any party, Halloween or otherwise.
— Alfred Hitchcock
Contents
Short Stories
- A Girl Must be Practical - Richard Deming
- The Missing Bow - Arthur Porges
- Invasion - Richard H. Wilkinson
- Out of Order - Carl Henry Rathjen
- Private and Confidential - Diane Frazer
- The Awful Experiment - Michael Zuroy
- The Pulque Vendor - Hal Ellson
- To Stop a Fire - Elijah Ellis
- Stop Killing Me - Hal Dresner
- Vendetta - Van Derveer
- The Hitchhiker - Alexandra Hill
Novelette
- The Adventure of the Haunted Library - August Derleth
Notes
- The Missing Bow was reprinted in This Day's Evil: Alfred Hitchcock (1967)
- Private and Confidential was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Happiness is a Warm Corpse (1969)
- Stop Killing Me was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Death Bag (1969)
- Adventure of the Haunted Library was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's a Hearse of a Different Color (1972) and Alfred Hitchcock's Borrowers of the Night (1983)
- To Stop a Fire was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Boys and Ghouls Together (1974)
Magazine Credits
- Richard E. Decker - Editor and Publisher
- Victoria S. Benham - Associate Editor
- G.F. Foster - Managing Editor
- Pat Hitchcock - Associate Editor
- Ned Benham - Associate Editor
- Donald C. Dilworth - Associate Editor
- Marguerite Blair Deacon - Art Director
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