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A very good collection of stories. I would certainly not want to read “The Whistling Room” late at night—that was the scariest story in the collection. Some other highlights: “It’s a Good Life”, which was made into an episode of “The Twilight Zone”, and the Roald Dahl story “The Sound Machine”, which I’d previously read in a Dahl-only collection. Can’t remember whether I’d read “The Fly” before, but it did feel familiar. It was very good, just giving me déjà lu!
I would absolutely recommend this collection if you like classic suspense short stories, maybe with a dash of sci-fi.
I would absolutely recommend this collection if you like classic suspense short stories, maybe with a dash of sci-fi.
This anthology includes a novelette, "the Fly" by George Langelaan, and 10 short stories:
It's a good life by Jerome Bixby
Lady's man by Ruth Chatterton
The Sound Machine by Roald Dahl
Pieces of Silver by Brett Halliday
The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson
Told for the Truth by Cyril Hume
The Mugging by Edward L. Perry
Finger! Finger! by Margaret Ronan
A Cry from the Penthouse by Henry Slesar
and The People Next Door by Pauline C. Smith.
Most of these stories are crime stories or tales of the supernatural, suspenseful and provocative. Langelaan's "The Fly" was adapted into the well known horror movie.
It's a good life by Jerome Bixby
Lady's man by Ruth Chatterton
The Sound Machine by Roald Dahl
Pieces of Silver by Brett Halliday
The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson
Told for the Truth by Cyril Hume
The Mugging by Edward L. Perry
Finger! Finger! by Margaret Ronan
A Cry from the Penthouse by Henry Slesar
and The People Next Door by Pauline C. Smith.
Most of these stories are crime stories or tales of the supernatural, suspenseful and provocative. Langelaan's "The Fly" was adapted into the well known horror movie.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night by Alfred Hitchcock (1961)
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Alfred Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899 in London, England. He graduated from St. Ignatius College, where he studied engineering, and took art courses at the University of London. He worked briefly as a technical calculator for a cable company, but soon decided to focus on art, becoming an advertising layout draftsman for a London department show more store. In 1920, he got a job writing and illustrating title cards for silent pictures. He rose quickly, to script writer, art director and assistant director. By 1925, he had become a director, making a melodrama called The Pleasure Garden. In 1929, he directed Blackmail, Britain's first widely successful talking feature. The other movies he directed in England included The Lodger (U.S. title, The Case of Jonathan Drew), The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, and The Lady Vanishes. He was approached by producer David O. Selznick about directing in the United States, and he accepted so he could take advantage of the better-equipped American studios. His first American film, Rebecca, won the Academy Award for best picture. The other movies he directed in the United States included Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Frenzy, and Family Plot. In 1979, he was awarded the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. In 1980, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died from liver failure and heart problems on April 29, 1980 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Stories for Late at Night, Part 2
- Original title
- More Stories for Late at Night
- Alternate titles
- Skeleton Crew
- Original publication date
- 1965
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- Fiction and Literature, Horror, Mystery
- DDC/MDS
- 813.087208 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction Collections
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- PS648 .H6 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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