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Horror & Supernatural paperbacks ’60’s & ’70’s

Alfred Hitchcock – Bar The Doors

Posted by demonik on July 16, 2007

Alfred Hitchcock – Bar The Doors (1972; this is the cover of the 3rd edition, 1977: originally Dell, 1948)

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Introduction: Speaking Of terror – Alfred Hitchcock

H. G. Wells – Pollock And The Porrah Man
McKnight Malmar – The Storm
Alexander Woollcott – Moonlight Sonata
DuBose Heyward – The Half-Pint Flask
Peter Fleming – The Kill
F. Marion Crawford – The Upper Berth
Alfred Noyes – Midnight Express
Ambrose Bierce – The Damned Thing
August Derleth – The Metronome
Martin Armstrong – The Pipe-Smoker
Samuel Hopkins Adams – The Corpse At The Table
Wilbur Daniel Steele – The Woman At Seven Brothers
Margaret Irwin – The Book

Blurb:

 Don’t anybody move ….

Here, selected by the master, are thirteen superlative tales designed to keep you frozen to your seat and written by the world’s most ingenious creators of the weird, the shocking, and the fantastic.

The master says:

Wouldn’t it be as well, my friends, to bar the doors before you commence to read this assortment of chills and shivers.”

There’s a helpful page devoted entirely to anthologies attributed to Hitchcock at Alfred’s Place.

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