Hitchcock fiction anthologies
The following are fiction collections and anthologies that have used Alfred Hitchcock's name, sorted by title. A separate chronological list sorted by year of publication is also available and includes alternative publication titles.
For works of non-fiction about the director and his films, see Hitchcock Books.
Overview
Although many of the anthologies included an introduction from Hitchcock, most sources agree that the director had minimal, if any, involvement with the books and that the introductions were typically ghostwritten by the publisher's in-house editor assigned to compile each collection. As with Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Hitchcock simply licensed his name for use by the publisher.
The first books to use his name were published in the 1940s, starting with The Pocket Book of Great Detectives (1941).
According to an advertisement in the New York Times Book Review (07/Mar/1943), Hitchcock provided an introduction to Intrigue: The Spy Novels of Eric Ambler.
In February 1946, Hitchcock's was advertised as one of the "board of judges" for the Unicorn Mystery Book Club, along with Orson Welles, Arch Oboler, Lewis J. Valentine and Dashiell Hammett. It's uncertain if Hitchcock was actually involved in the book selection or just licensed his name for use by the book club.[1]
During the opening scenes of Strangers on a Train (1951), Farley Granger appears to be reading a hardback copy of Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside Book of Suspense Stories (1947).
A second wave of anthologies followed from 1957, predominantly released by Dell Publishing, to capitalise on the success of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series. During the 1960s and 1970s, Dell released around 60 titles, many of them undergoing several reprints.
The popularity of the anthologies led to Random House releasing a series of titles edited by Robert Arthur and aimed at children, containing stories more suitable for younger readers. A couple of years later, Arthur created the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators series.
In the mid-1960s, respected anthologist Peter Haining began editing a series Hitchcock titles for British publishers Four Square and New English Library.
The most recent anthologies have primarily been compiled by Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine editors, including Eleanor Sullivan and Cathleen Jordan.
Fiction Anthologies
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- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents: 13 Tales of New American Gothic
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 14 of My Favorites in Suspense
- Alfred Hitchcock's 14 Suspense Stories to Play Russian Roulette By
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 16 Skeletons from My Closet
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- Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils
- Alfred Hitchcock's A Mystery By the Tale
- Alfred Hitchcock's Alive and Screaming
- Alfred Hitchcock's Anti-Social Register
- Alfred Hitchcock: Anyone for Murder?
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- Alfred Hitchcock's a Baker's Dozen of Suspense Stories
- Bar the Doors! Terror Stories
- Alfred Hitchcock's Behind the Death Ball
- Alfred Hitchcock: Behind the Locked Door
- Alfred Hitchcock's The Best of Fiends
- The Best of Mystery
- Alfred Hitchcock's Bleeding Hearts
- Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories: Book 1
- Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories: Book 2
- Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories: Book 3
- Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories: Book 4
- Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories: Book 5
- Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories: Book 6
- Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories: Book 7
- Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories: Book 8
- Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories: Book 9
- Alfred Hitchcock's Borrowers of the Night
- A Bouquet of Clean Crimes and Neat Murders
- Alfred Hitchcock's Boys and Ghouls Together
- Alfred Hitchcock: Breaking the Scream Barrier
- Alfred Hitchcock's A Brief Darkness
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- Alfred Hitchcock's Daring Detectives
- Alfred Hitchcock's Death Bag
- Alfred Hitchcock's Death Can Be Beautiful
- Alfred Hitchcock: Death on Arrival
- Death on Television: The Best of Henry Slesar's Alfred Hitchcock Stories
- Alfred Hitchcock's Death-Mate
- Alfred Hitchcock's Death-Reach
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Don't Look a Gift-Shark in the Mouth
- Alfred Hitchcock's Down by the Old Bloodstream
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- Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions
- Alfred Hitchcock's Fear and Trembling
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense
- Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside Book of Suspense Stories
- Fun and Games at the Whacks Museum and Other Horror Stories
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- Alfred Hitchcock's Games Killers Play
- Alfred Hitchcock's Get Me to the Wake On Time
- Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery
- Alfred Hitchcock's Grave Business
- Alfred Hitchcock's Grave Suspicions
- Alfred Hitchcock: The Graveyard Man
- Guaranteed Rest in Peace: Alfred Hitchcock
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- Alfred Hitchcock's a Hangman's Dozen
- Alfred Hitchcock's Happiness is a Warm Corpse
- Alfred Hitchcock's Happy Deathday!
- Alfred Hitchcock's a Hard Day at the Scaffold
- Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful
- Alfred Hitchcock's Having a Wonderful Crime
- Alfred Hitchcock's a Hearse of a Different Color
- Hitchcock in Prime Time
- Alfred Hitchcock's Hold Your Breath
- Alfred Hitchcock's Home Sweet Homicide
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- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master's Choice
- Alfred Hitchcock: Meet Death at Night
- Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month of Mystery
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mortal Errors
- Alfred Hitchcock's Most Wanted: The First Lineup
- Alfred Hitchcock's Murder & Other Mishaps
- Alfred Hitchcock's Murder on the Half-Skull
- Alfred Hitchcock's Murder Racquet
- Alfred Hitchcock's Murder-Go-Round
- Alfred Hitchcock's Murderers' Row
- Alfred Hitchcock: Murders I Fell in Love With
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: My Favorites in Suspense
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- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Scream Along With Me
- Alfred Hitchcock's Shrouds and Pockets
- Alfred Hitchcock's Sinister Spies
- Alfred Hitchcock's Skull Session
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Slay Ride
- Alfred Hitchcock's Speak of the Devil
- Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbinders in Suspense
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories for Late at Night
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me
- Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read With the Door Locked
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read With the Lights On
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Stay Awake By
- Alfred Hitchcock's Supernatural Tales of Terror and Suspense
- Suspense Stories: Collected by Alfred Hitchcock
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- Tales from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- Tales of Terror
- Alfred Hitchcock's Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic
- Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Be Read with Caution
- Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Fill You with Fear and Trembling
- Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Keep You Spellbound
- Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Make You Quake & Quiver
- Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Make You Weak in the Knees
- Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Make Your Blood Run Cold
- Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Make Your Hair Stand on End
- Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Make Your Teeth Chatter
- Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Scare You Stiff
- Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Send Chills Down Your Spine
- Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Take Your Breath Away
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Terror Time
- Alfred Hitchcock's The Shadow of Silence
- This Day's Evil: Alfred Hitchcock
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: This One Will Kill You
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See Also...
The following sources contain detailed information about many of the anthologies:
- The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion (2001)
- Casual Debris - An Alfred Hitchcock Anthology Bibliography
- The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Vault of Evil