Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghostly Gallery edited by Alfred Hitchcock

[james_davis_nicoll]

Ghost stories targeted at school-age readers


Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghostly Gallery edited by Alfred Hitchcock

Comments

[ba_munronoe]

I read this back in the 80s, and remember it by the cover and a couple stories that have stuck in my head, notably "the upper berth." Several of these have entirely vanished down the memory hole.

[rpresser]

Did you ever read any of the "The Three Investigators" books? Alfred Hitchcock let his name to those, too -- in fact in the first volume Alfred gifts the three boys a Rolls-Royce automobile.

[james_davis_nicoll]

I do not think I have.

[(Anonymous)]

The first books in the series were written by Robert Arthur, so if you liked his stories in the anthology, you might be interested. The first book, The Secret of Terror Castle, is available from both Amazon and Kobo for 1.99, but no other books in the series appear to be available in electronic formats.

[bolindbergh]

Apple sells (outside of US and CA) English-language editions from a German publisher. No, I'm not making this up.

[kgbooklog]

Albert Hitfield? Alfred Hitfield?

[bolindbergh]

Underpaid copywriter.

[chrysostom]

I'd been thinking of requesting a review of another one of these! Monster Museum - it's got "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles" in it.

[sylvanwitch]

I picked up a used copy of this somewhere on my travels! Your review makes me want to figure out where I've shelved it.

[thomasyan]

I did not read this, but I think "Obstinate Uncle Otis” was in my second grade reader.

Update: Googling says yup, this is the short story I thought it was.

[dragoness_e]

I remember several of those stories.

"The Upper Berth" is a horror classic; it has been reprinted more than a few times.

[sporky_rat]

I have my mother's copy from the sixties!

[fred_mouse]

I don't recognise this one from the cover, but much younger me certainly read multiple anthologies by Hitchcock, and also one by Peter Haining, who seemed to be the other main editor of the books I could get access to.