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Este libro es united nations compilado de historias de terror de diferentes autores seleccionados por uno de los directores más representativos del género. Considero que es un tesoro en mi biblioteca, pues tiene relatos que guardare en mi memoria para siempre, con ambientes propicios para el terror. Mi relación con este libro es especial. Siempre he sido un fanático del terror, pero no siempre un lector, es aquí cuando le pregunte a mi
Reseña completa en mi instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3SrpLQl2...Este libro es un compilado de historias de terror de diferentes autores seleccionados por uno de los directores más representativos del género. Considero que es un tesoro en mi biblioteca, pues tiene relatos que guardare en mi memoria para siempre, con ambientes propicios para el terror. Mi relación con este libro es especial. Siempre he sido un fanático del terror, pero no siempre un lector, es aquí cuando le pregunte a mi padre si tenía algún libro guardado de terror. Me enseñó este y me dijo "Lee el cuento: He, tú que estás allá abajo!" esa misma noche lo leí y me fascinó, aún lo recuerdo como uno de los mejores relatos cortos que he leído en toda mi vida y quedó como mi favorito de la antología, si pueden buscar este libro o al menos ese relato en algún lado, no se arrepentirán, esta escrito por Harold Rolseth. Esta es mi lista de relatos que más amo en esta antología:
ane- He, tú que estás allá abajo! - Harold Rolseth.
ii- La patrona - Roald Dahl.
three- El hombre del pozo - Berkely Mather.
Mayhap I still practise. But in that location's no doubt that when I was twelve, xiii—we're talking here 1974, '75—he seemed a figure from another, greater globe, a world quite beyond the ken of mortal man. The word "legend" hardly fifty-fifty touches was Hitchcock was to me, and to much of the earth, by that point. The face, the vocalisation, the dark suits, the girth, the droll British wit—all these seemed eternal. I'd never known a globe without Alfred Hitchcock in it
Once upon a time I idea Alfred Hitchcock was God.Peradventure I notwithstanding do. But in that location's no doubt that when I was twelve, 13—we're talking here 1974, '75—he seemed a figure from another, greater world, a globe quite beyond the ken of mortal man. The word "fable" hardly fifty-fifty touches was Hitchcock was to me, and to much of the world, by that point. The face, the vox, the dark suits, the girth, the droll British wit—all these seemed eternal. I'd never known a world without Alfred Hitchcock in it; for that thing, neither had my parents, both of whom were born in 1932, well later on his great early career in England was underway.
What'southward more—speaking of eternal—in my beginning catamenia of discovery of him, Hitchcock was, incredibly, withal making movies. "Frenzy" had just been a major worldwide hit, and the newspapers oft ran stories about his upcoming production "Deception" (eventually retitled "Family unit Plot").
But at that historic period, my reverence for Hitchcock was merely partly based on a honey for his movies. Yes, I grew upwards entranced by Boob tube reruns of "The Birds" and "Lifeboat" and "Psycho" and "Suspicion" and a dozen more, certainly. But Alfred Hitchcock was a media celebrity as much as he was a motion picture director, the Master not only of Suspense merely of Marketing—a man who turned his very proper name into an instantly recognizable make. I could argue that as a filmmaker Hitchcock was no better than, say, John Ford or Baton Wilder. But they never created the kind of name-brand recognition that Hitch did—recognition so powerful that fifty-fifty today kids often know Hitchcock's name fifty-fifty if they can't name a single other director of Hollywood's Golden Age. Hitchcock's fame was only partly due to his undoubted brilliance as a filmmaker; a significant portion of it came, and comes even today, from his unparalleled accomplishments in self-promotion.
In fact, information technology was actually his goggle box program "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" which introduced me to the man's piece of work; I used to watch repeats of the testify with my mother on KTTV, Aqueduct 11 out of Los Angeles. Similar almost everyone, I was overjoyed past the quirky sense of humour of the show's rotund host, Mr. Hitchcock himself; my fascination led me to his films speedily enough, and I understood early on that they were really his main merits to fame.
Only in the America of the 1960s and '70s Hitchcock was everywhere—not simply on motion picture and Television receiver screens, merely on record players ("Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People," an LP I checked out again and again from the library when I was a kid); newsstands ("Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine," still in business today); children's bookshelves (the "3 Investigators" series of YA mystery novels with Hitchcock equally a character); and, most importantly to me for a while, grown-ups' bookshelves—with an entire long series of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" mystery anthologies published in hardcover by Random House and in paperback past Dell and, later, Bantam.
Now, fifty-fifty when I was twelve I found myself wondering how in the world Alfred Hitchcock had time to do all this. His TV series had ended, merely he was still making movies regularly and, information technology seemed, editing a monthly mystery mag, too as compiling those numerous anthologies. How could he maybe have the fourth dimension to read all those stories, not to mention write the introductions to every book and every issue of the magazine—all while directing a steady stream of movies in Hollywood? And at historic period 75, no less?
Well, the answer, of course, is that he couldn't. The magazine and the anthologies were entirely the work of others; Hitchcock merely lent his name to these enterprises. I suspected this even when I was a kid, though I exercise call up hoping that at least he really wrote the funny introductions to the books himself. He didn't.
No matter. Even with my suspicions, I couldn't get enough of the Hitchcock product as it was churned out during my youth. I subscribed to the magazine for years, and I bought every paperback anthology that showed up on our local grocery store'southward wire rack. My female parent and I would have out the new hardcovers from the library.
And the truth is, Hitch or no Hitch, many of those anthologies were excellent (the magazine begetting the homo's name is still a leader in the field of mystery fiction today). I offset constitute the stories of countless writers who would go favorites of mine inside the covers of those Hitchcock collections. I loved the books' titles—"Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV," "Stories Not for the Nervous," "Stories That Scared Even Me." (The paperbacks sometimes had fifty-fifty wilder names—"Alfred Hitchcock's Happiness is a Warm Corpse," "Alfred Hitchcock's Slay Ride," and and then on.)
Only my favorite, hands downward—my mother'southward, besides—was "Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories to Be Read With the Lights On."
I still have the volume, in a book club hardcover edition nosotros must accept picked upward at the local austerity store—brand-new publishers' hardcovers were not in the Conlon family unit upkeep. The dust jacket has the familiar Hitchcock silhouette on the encompass and, nether the title, the words "Thirty-7 Spooky Exercises in the Art of Murder and Suspense." Merely looking at information technology, i can nigh hear Gounod'southward "Funeral March for a Marionette," meliorate known as the "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" theme, playing in the background….
The album, published in 1973, features several stories which I read then and have never forgotten: "The Landlady" past Roald Dahl; "The Pile of Sand" past John Keefauver; "The Bitter Years" by Dana Lyon; "Agony Column" by Barry Malzberg (a tale I found horrifying when I kickoff read it but which I now meet is bitterly hilarious). And, near and all-time of all, "Hey You Down There" by Harold Rolseth, the story of Calvin and Dora Spender, two country folk digging a well on their property who find something down at that place in the earth that's…well, pretty darned interesting. I'll say no more, except that if you can terminate reading "Hey You Down In that location" without beingness both chilled to the bone and convulsed in hysterical laughter, you lot're a stronger man than I. Even if you lot're a woman.
That'south peradventure the greatest affair almost these Hitchcock anthologies—and then many terrific stories, often by writers one has never even heard of. Other than every bit the writer of "Hey You Down There," Harold Rolseth's name is entirely unknown to me, and even a Google search turns up no bear witness he ever wrote any books. Who was he? I haven't the faintest idea. Simply I know that "Hey You Down In that location" has stayed with me for forty years, as have innumerable tales from those Hitchcock books by writers both little-known and legendary.
My wife is besides a mystery and suspense aficionado, and early in our relationship—some fifteen years agone—we were reminiscing almost unforgettable early reading experiences when she made mention of a story almost a couple excavation a well on their property and the remarkable matter they notice deep in the world—the story had stayed with her since she read information technology as a picayune daughter. The story was, of course, "Hey Yous Down There," and she'd read it in the same Hitchcock anthology I'd read it in.
Thanks, Hitch.
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I don't know how easy it is to observe this book in print anymore (see story below for how I came upon it, and the book fell autonomously in my easily as I read it), but if you can become your mitts on information technology, requite it a read. You won't regret information technology.
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I don't know how easy information technology is to discover this volume in print anymore (see story below for how I came upon it, and the book fell autonomously in my hands as I read it), merely if yous tin can get your mitts on it, requite it a read. You won't regret information technology.
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I have a few books that have been effectually and so long, I never pause to wonder where they came from. Used volume stores, garage sales, boxes of books saved from the junk thousand.
This is one of those. I love Alfred Hitchcock, have always since I was a little girl watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents in reruns on Nick at Nite. So, information technology fabricated sense that I would accept this. Where did information technology come up from? Eh, doesn't matter.
I decided to option information technology upward on a lark, equally I oasis't had fourth dimension to brand my usual library runs, then I don't have piles of library books to choose from now.
And about 30 pages in, I stumbled beyond a stamp from my sometime high school.
Plain, 16 or and so years agone, I stole this book from my loftier school library.
Oops.
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Again, the volume starts with a relatively weak tale, "Decease Out of Season", past Mary Barrett, but This book came out in hardcover in 1973; for the paperback version the publishers decided to release it in ii volumes. This is volume i, and "Breaking the Scream Barrier" is book two. Only a few of the stories in this one are culled from AHMM; the other sources are as diverse as The New Yorker, Ellery Queen, Playboy, Human from U.N.C.L.Eastward., and the Texas Quarterly. Stories range from 1959 to 1972.
Again, the book starts with a relatively weak tale, "Death Out of Season", past Mary Barrett, but "Witness in the Nighttime", by Fredric Brown, is a flat-out winner. No surprise from the guy who wrote THE SCREAMING MIMI and THE FABULOUS CLIPJOINT. Information technology's a very clever petty mystery story about a murder in which the only witness is a temporarily blind man. Nicely washed.
Robert Colby's "Shadows on the Route" keeps the momentum going every bit various ne'er-exercise-wells cease at a desert hotel only to have themselves exploited by their own crimes. "Mr. Mappin Forecloses", by Zena Collier, is a fun if not slightly predictable story that ends in a nicely Hitchcockian fashion. "Granny", by Ron Goulart, is a bit lackluster, but is redeemed past a chilling last paragraph.
Not surprisingly, Roald Dahl's "The Landlady" is brilliant. A boyfriend well-nigh to start a new job checks into a bed and breakfast, where the sweet little landlady is harboring a sinister underground. Funny and creepy, as y'all'd expect from Dahl.
"3 Ways to Rob a Depository financial institution", by Harold R. Daniels, is a fun little bit of anti-capitalism with an ending that will exit you with a smiling on your face. "No Loose Ends", from Miriam Allen deFord, has a adequately weak ending, just the story is still well-written and nicely plotted.
From Joe Gores, "Goodbye, Pops" is a melancholy tough guy story almost a hood who breaks out of stir to see his father in the one-time human being's dying hours. I'1000 non Gores biggest fan just I liked this one.
"Pin Money", by James Cross, is a little slow to become moving, but once it does it really rolls well. Robert J. Higgins "Social Climber" is a very curt one about a novice cat burglar trying to go alee in the game by teaming with an old pro—but the novice isn't as starry-eyed every bit he seems. "I'd Know Y'all Anywhere", past Edward J. Hoch, is a fix of scenes between 2 soldiers over the span of several years, equally one soldier's perverse love of killing takes him to great heights, much to the other's dismay.
John Keefauver's "A Pile of Sand", is clearly trying to brand a bigger indicate about humanity or the world just I am apparently not intelligent enough to understand what that betoken is.
"Payoff on Double Zilch", by Warner Law, starts slow but turns out to be a very good one nigh a young casino dealer and a scam gone wrong. Dana Lyon'due south "The Bitter Years" is a solid Hitchcock-type story in which a adult female who embezzled thousands fights to preserve her large dream. "Homo's All-time Friend", by Dee Stuart, a fun story well-nigh a woman fighting for her hubby'south affections—against a canis familiaris.
The collection ends with a novella past the great William P. McGivern called "Killer on the Turnpike"—an unhinged merely clever murderer tries to elude police on a long stretch of highway; meanwhile police pull an e'er-tightening cordon around him and for i immature trooper it becomes personal. Wonderfully suspenseful.
Stand-out stories: "The Landlady", "Three Ways to Rob a Bank", and "Killer on the Turnpike".
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Offset of all, I had problem finding stories actually written by Alfred Hitchcock. So when I came beyond this title I was excited. That excitement speedily dissapated when I got the volume in manus and found out that none of the stories we
I am going to kindly requite this a iii star rating. I'thousand non sure if it has earned more than that, in fact, it only gets a three because I could not fully distinguish if ii stars would be completely justified. I enjoyed quite a few of the stories just definitely not all.First of all, I had problem finding stories really written by Alfred Hitchcock. So when I came across this title I was excited. That excitement quickly dissapated when I got the book in hand and found out that none of the stories were written by Hitchcock merely rather only selected past him. I was still curious though because I idea to myself what would the Principal of Suspense deem as a worthy collection of suspense and mystery brusque stories?
I was disappointed, most of them I do not think would have met such a high standard. So I slowed information technology down and lowered my expectation and began to really enjoy more of them. However, I did not read all of them. I simply fabricated it to the 309th page of the over 400 page book. These stories are decent enough to make full empty fourth dimension, merely I would not select this book if you were someone who values your time. The stories were predictable (as many reviews have stated) and were written by authors who have taken decent ideas, built them upwardly fairly well then incidently brought them to a sudden halt with screeching tires and left them like abandoned vehicles dangling on an edge. Nonetheless, there were 3 of the stories I've read that helped give this book it's 3rd star.
12/8/12 started - 12/31/12 finished
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The stories are lively and varied. All of them have a twist of some sort. Some are dark portraits of sick psyches, some are speculative fiction and some others are poignant lessons on how non to commit a law-breaking. If you are looking for a go
Despite the title, many of these stories are not at all scary, especially the sentimentally poignant "Christopher Frames." Some stories are incredibly funny in a dark manner such as "Social Climber" -- I tin can just hear Hitchcock's laughter when and if he read these.
The stories are lively and varied. All of them have a twist of some sort. Some are dark portraits of sick psyches, some are speculative fiction and some others are poignant lessons on how non to commit a offense. If you are looking for a good album to read, this is it. If you lot are looking for all scary stories, this ain't it, then keep on going.
I'm not sure how many (or if any) of these stories were turned into Twilight Zone or Tales from the Darkside episodes, simply some certain seem awfully familiar.
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Opposite to the title, none of the stories are scary. Most I could see easil
A solid collection. Our sometime boondocks library used to have shelves of the Alfred Hitchcock collections and I loved them as a teenager--was interested seeing how they have held upward. And they have aged extremely well I am happy to report! None of the stories in this collection flop, some are just okay, almost very good, a few great. Roald Dahl is the only writer in this that was known to me, and it contains his fabulous landlady.Opposite to the title, none of the stories are scary. Most I could see easily adaptable to EC Comics, and I'd be very surprised if many of the authors in this as well wrote for the comic manufacture of the 50s, also the pulps. I think each of these stories ends with a twist, with the criminal getting abroad, or dying in an exotic manner--sharks, subterranean world, con artists, serial killers, voodoo--the just thing the stories all have in common is heavy doses of irony. Will read the remainder of the set.
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Gran antología de historias cortas de suspenso, más no de terror. compiladas por Alfred Hitchcock. Este volumen está formada por 37 historias, donde podemos ver desfilar un sinfín de personajes y ensalada de relatos, de dónde emergen diferentes situaciones.
Una buena parte de estas lecturas son sobrecogedoras, otras muchas nos dejan con una sonrisa de sorpresa ante un giro inesperado. Sí bien es cierto que en una antología podemos encontrar textos que nos gustan , y otros q Promedio four.five estrellas.
Gran antología de historias cortas de suspenso, más no de terror. compiladas por Alfred Hitchcock. Este volumen está formada por 37 historias, donde podemos ver desfilar un sinfín de personajes y ensalada de relatos, de dónde emergen diferentes situaciones.
Una buena parte de estas lecturas son sobrecogedoras, otras muchas nos dejan con una sonrisa de sorpresa ante un giro inesperado. Sí bien es cierto que en una antología podemos encontrar textos que nos gustan , y otros que no tanto, podría decir que la mayoría son excelentes.
Altamente recomendable para aquellos que disfrutan con la sensación de aprehensión que se genera en esta lectura.
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Mr. Mappin Forecloses
Hey Y'all Down There
If you like short fiction, and interesting stories from the 20th century, well-told, I really recommend these Alfred Hitchcock Presents books - if you lot tin get your easily on any of them. The
Another good collection of short stories from the suspense, thriller, and mystery genres. While non as strong as some of the other collections, most all of the stories are at least written well, and this collection contains not one only two of my favorite stories so far:Mr. Mappin Forecloses
Hey You lot Downwardly There
If you like brusk fiction, and interesting stories from the 20th century, well-told, I actually recommend these Alfred Hitchcock Presents books - if you can get your easily on whatever of them. They're always good for a good time.
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Hitchcock's 1930s - 1970s movies are still classics; such equally: "The Birds", "Psycho", "The 39 Steps", "Family unit Plot", "Strangers On A Train", "Spellbound", "Lifeboat", "Vertigo", Rear Window", "Suspicion" "The Problem With Harry", "Marnie", "Rope", "N Past Northwest", "Dial 'M' For Murder", "The Man Who Knew Likewise Much" and many
Once upon a time, Alfred Hitchcock was rex to me. Even Oriana Fallaci's damning story nearly Hitchcock in her book: "The Egotists" didn't diminish my reverence of the man.Hitchcock'southward 1930s - 1970s movies are still classics; such every bit: "The Birds", "Psycho", "The 39 Steps", "Family unit Plot", "Strangers On A Train", "Spellbound", "Lifeboat", "Vertigo", Rear Window", "Suspicion" "The Trouble With Harry", "Marnie", "Rope", "North By Northwest", "Punch 'M' For Murder", "The Human being Who Knew Too Much" and many other Hitchcock movies are in my video library.
Hitchcock was, to me, a legend from another world and fourth dimension. In print, my favorite Alfred Hitchcock hardcover book collection of short stories are: "Stories To Be Read With the Lights On" and "Stories That Scared Even Me".
This volume is an entertaining collection of stories ranging from breast-tightening horror to outright express mirth-out-loud hilarity. Even over 45 years afterwards, I experience like the younger version of myself at the sheer pleasure and amusement I experienced reading these stories for the starting time fourth dimension. If you get this book, read: "Hey You downwards there".
Thank you, Hitch, for many wonderful experiences and memories in my life!
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Seleção de contos que foram adaptados para a excelente série "Alfred Hithcock Apresenta", a maioria no gênero policial. Destaco:
Adeus, Meu Pai - mais para drama.
A Montanha de Areia - com um toque de sobrenatural, lembra muito o estilo de Stephen King.
Adivinhe O Que É - sempre acho contos com crianças muito sinistros.
O Contrabandista Que Escapou - quem conhece a Velhinha da Lambreta practise ótimo Stanislaw Ponte Preta vai imediatamente se lembrar dela com seu saco de areia.
"Christopher Frame - Nan
Seleção de contos que foram adaptados para a excelente série "Alfred Hithcock Apresenta", a maioria no gênero policial. Destaco:
Adeus, Meu Pai - mais para drama.
A Montanha de Areia - com um toque de sobrenatural, lembra muito o estilo de Stephen King.
Adivinhe O Que É - sempre acho contos com crianças muito sinistros.
O Contrabandista Que Escapou - quem conhece a Velhinha da Lambreta do ótimo Stanislaw Ponte Preta vai imediatamente se lembrar dela com seu saco de areia.
"Christopher Frame - Nancy C.Swoboda"
"Tubarões Demais — William Sambrot"
"A "Dama Patrícia" - Jack Ritchie"
"Um Bom Esconderijo — Joan Richter"
"O Contrabandista Que Escapou — Al Nussbaum"
"O Estranho Caso do Sr. Pruyn - William F.Nolan"
"A Defesa De Dois Milhões De Dólares — Harold Q. Masur"
"Adivinhe O Que É— Rose One thousand thousand Healey"
"A Montanha De Areia — John Keefauver"
"Adeus, Meu Pai - Joe Gores"
"Miragem Do Deserto — Robert Colby"
"Testemunha Na Escuridão — Fredric Brown"
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Following a very substantial career in his native U.k. in both silent films and talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood and became an American citizen with dual nationality in 1956, thus he also remained a British subject.
Hitchcock dire
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was an iconic and highly influential flick director and producer, who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.Post-obit a very substantial career in his native Britain in both silent films and talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood and became an American citizen with dual nationality in 1956, thus he likewise remained a British subject.
Hitchcock directed more than than fifty feature films in a career which spanned half dozen decades, from the silent film era, through the invention of audio films, and far into the era of color films. For a complete listing of his films, meet Alfred Hitchcock filmography.
Hitchcock was amidst the well-nigh consistently recognizable directors to the general public, and was one of the most successful film directors during his lifetime. He continues to be ane of the best known and most popular filmmakers of all time.
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