Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me (book)

US hardback

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me

• published in 1963 in the USA by Random House (hardback)
• edited by Robert Arthur
• 401 pages

Contents

1. Introduction by Alfred Hitchcock (ghost written)
2. The Child Who Believed by Grace Amundson
3. Just a Dreamer by Robert Arthur
4. The Wall-to-Wall Grave by Andrew Benedict
5. The Wind by Ray Bradbury
6. Congo by Stuart Cloete
7. Witch's Money by John Collier
8. Dip in the Pool by Roald Dahl
9. The Secret of the Bottle novelette by Gerald Kersh
10. I Do Not Hear You, Sir by Avram Davidson
11. The Arbutus Collar by Jeremiah Digges
12. A Short Trip Home novelette by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. An Invitation to the Hunt by George Hitchcock
14. The Man Who Was Everywhere by Edward D. Hoch
15. The Summer People by Shirley Jackson
16. Adjustments by George Mandel
17. The Children of Noah by Richard Matheson
18. The Idol of the Flies by Jane Rice
19. Courtesy of the Road by Mack Morriss
20. Remains to Be Seen by Jack Ritchie (as Steve O'Connell)
21. The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles by Margaret St. Clair (as Idris Seabright)
22. Lost Dog by Henry Slesar
23. Hostage by Don Stanford
24. Natural Selection by Gilbert Thomas
25. Simone by Joan Vatsek
26. Smart Sucker by Richard Wormser
27. Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon

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US paperback

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me

• published in March 1965 in the USA by Dell Publishing (paperback)
• 223 pages

Contents

1. The Child Who Believed by Grace Amundson
2. Just a Dreamer by Robert Arthur
3. The Wall-to-Wall Grave by Andrew Benedict
4. Witch's Money by John Collier
5. The Secret of the Bottle novelette by Gerald Kersh
6. A Short Trip Home novelette by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. An Invitation to the Hunt by George Hitchcock
8. The Summer People by Shirley Jackson
9. Adjustments by George Mandel
10. The Children of Noah by Richard Matheson
11. The Idol of the Flies by Jane Rice
12. Hostage by Don Stanford
13. Smart Sucker by Richard Wormser

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paperback

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories My Mother Never Told Me

• published in November 1965 in the USA by Dell Publishing (paperback)
• 190 pages

Contents

1. The Wind by Ray Bradbury
2. Congo by Stuart Cloete
3. Dip in the Pool by Roald Dahl
4. I Do Not Hear You, Sir by Avram Davidson
5. The Arbutus Collar by Jeremiah Digges
6. The Man Who Was Everywhere by Edward D. Hoch
7. Courtesy of the Road by Mack Morriss
8. Remains to Be Seen by Jack Ritchie (as Steve O'Connell)
9. The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles by Margaret St. Clair (as Idris Seabright)
10. Lost Dog by Henry Slesar
11. Slime novelette by Joseph Payne Brennan
12. How Love Came to Professor Guildea novella by Robert Hichens (as Robert S. Hichens)
13. Natural Selection by Gilbert Thomas
14. Simone by Joan Vatsek

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Notes

• The Dell paperbacks dropped Some of Your Blood but added Slime and How Love Came to Professor Guildea'
• The Children of Noah appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (March 1957)
• Dip in the Pool was adapted as an "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode in 1958 and as a "Tales of the Unexpected" episode in 1979
• The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles and Slime also appeared in "Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum" (1965)

Links

• The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Casual Debris - An Alfred Hitchcock Anthology Bibliography

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