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Title: 13 More Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do On TV
Series: ———-
Editor: Alfred Hitchcock
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre: Crime Fiction
Pages: 180
Words: 70K
I had already read The Most Dangerous game several times, but I found myself reading it again anyway. It is really that good of a story.
There was a story by Roald Dahl here and I must say, it got this collection the “disturbing” tag. While Dahl might be a fantastic children’s author, when he lets his mind run unbridled, like he does with this adult stories, it is not a pretty sight. It wasn’t some sort of supernatural grotesquerie, but a case of one human acting in the most abominable way towards another. I don’t think I could have ever of thought of a story like this. It disturbs me that someone could imagine that.
The final story is one translated from a russian fellow and it was just as disturbing as anything else. It felt like a shoddy story but I suspect that shoddy translation work was more to blame. Either way, it was a typical russian story ending in madness and death. Andreyev was no master though and there’s a reason his name isn’t proclaimed alongside Dostoyevsky, etc.
Overall, this balanced out to a decent but not wonderful read.
★★★☆☆
Table of Contents:
- The Moment of Decision—STANLEY ELLIN
- A Jungle Graduate—JAMES FRANCIS DWYER
- Recipe for Murder—C. P. DONNEL, JR.
- Nunc Dimittis—ROALD DAHL
- The Most Dangerous Game—RICHARD CONNELL
- The Lady on the Grey—JOHN COLLIER
- The Waxwork—A. M. BURRAGE
- The Dumb Wife—THOMAS BURKE
- Couching at the Door—D. K. BROSTER
- The October Game—RAY BRADBURY
- Water’s Edge—ROBERT BLOCH
- The Jokester—ROBERT ARTHUR
- The Abyss—LEONID ANDREYEV
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