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Title: 16 Skeletons from My Closet
Series:
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Editor: Alfred Hitchcock
Rating:
2.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Crime Fiction
Pages:
165
Words: 66K
Publish: 1963
These stories did not work well for me at all. In fact, I got the distinct impression that I was reading the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine leftovers or rejects. I wasn’t, as these had all been published in the AHMM, but this was on par with my read of more recent editions of AHMM than my previous reads of these Alfred Hitchcock Presents anthologies. Most of the time I can pick at least 3-4 stories that leave me with a frisson of enjoyment, no matter how twisted, but this time, every single story just fell flat for me or was completely stale.
Not a particularly enjoyable time was spent on reading this :-(
★★✬☆☆
Blurb & Table of Contents:
ALFIE'S GUARANTEE
If you don't shudder with every twist and sudden thrust of these 16 terror tales...
if you are able to turn off your bedside lamp after closing this volume and drift off to a deep, dreamless sleep...
if you can drink your morning coffee without thinking there just might be a peculiarly bitter taste to it, or turn your back on your spouse or best friend without feeling a funny itching between your shoulder blades...
then that lovable old master of menace, Alfred Hitchcock, apologizes and personally guarantees you your full payment in horror. All you have to do is meet him in the cemetery under the next murderer's moon.…
INTRODUCTION by Alfred Hitchcock
GHOST STORY by Henry Kane
WHERE IS THY STING? by James Holding
THE BUTLER WHO DIDN'T DO IT by Craig Rice
CHRISTMAS GIFT by Robert Turner
THE MAN AT THE TABLE by C. B. Gilford
DEATH OF ANOTHER SALESMAN by Donald Honig
MAN WITH A HOBBY by Robert Bloch
...SAID JACK THE RIPPER by Robert Arthur
A GUN WITH A HEART by William Logan
ASSASSINATION by Dion Henderson
A LITTLE SORORICIDE by Richard Deming
THE MAN WHO GOT AWAY WITH IT by Lawrence Treat
SECRET RECIPE by Charles Mergendahl
DADDY-O by David Alexander
THE CRIME MACHINE by Jack Ritchie
HOMICIDE AND GENTLEMEN by Fletcher Flora
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