Anthologies

Alfred Hitchcock Presents:
Stories My Mother Never Told Me

Information   Teacher Resources   Spanish Cover Illustration

Information

• First edition:
  • Random House, 1963, USA.
• Contains:
  • "Dip in the Pool"
  • "Introduction" by Alfred Hitchcock
  • "The Child Who Believed" by Grace Amundson
  • "Just a Dreamer" by Robert Arthur
  • "The Wall-to-Wall Grave ["Walkup to Death"]" by Andrew Benedict
  • "The Wind" by Ray Bradbury
  • "Congo" by Stuart Cloete
  • "Witch's Money" by John Collier
  • "The Secret of the Bottle ["The Mystery of the Bottle"]" by Gerald Kersh
  • "I Do Not Hear You, Sir" by Avram Davidson
  • "The Arbutus Collar" by Jeremiah Digges
  • "A Short Trip Home" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • "An Invitation to the Hunt" by George Hitchcock
  • "The Man Who Was Everywhere" by Edward D. Hoch
  • "The Summer People" by Shirley Jackson
  • "Adjustments" by George Mandel
  • "The Children of Noah" by Richard Matheson
  • "The Idol of the Flies" by Jane Rice
  • "Courtesy of the Road" by Mack Morriss
  • "Remains to Be Seen [as by Steve O'Connell]" by Jack Ritchie
  • "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles" by Idris Seabright
  • "Lost Dog" by Henry Slesar
  • "Slime" by Joseph Payne Brennan
  • "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" by Robert S. Hichens
  • "Hostage" by Don Stanford
  • "Natural Selection" by Gilbert Thomas
  • "Simone" by Joan Vatsek
  • "Smart Sucker" by Richard Wormser
  • "Some of Your Blood" by Theodore Sturgeon

Teacher Resources

• "Dip in the Pool"
  • Classroom Activities
    • Includes a number of questions and exercises pertaining to the story
  • Additional Classroom Question
    • Suggested question to tack on the end of Jocelyn Allen's Classroom Activities

Spanish Cover Illustration – "cuentos que mi madre nunca me contó"