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Adventure and Suspense

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Information

  • Published by:
    • Scholastic, 1973, USA.
  • Edited by: Marion L. Huyck

Covers

The Armchair Horror Collection

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Information

  • Published by:
    • Orion Paperbacks, 1994, UK.
  • Edited by: Peter Haining

Covers

The Armchair Aviator

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Information

  • Published by:
    • Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1983, USA.
  • Edited by: John Thorn

Description

From book cover: “Best in aviation fact and fiction–military or civil–from Richard Bach, Arthur C. Clarke, Len Deighton, Jimmy Doolittle, Ernest Gann, Wolfgang Langewiesche, Charles Lindbergh, Norman Mailer, James Michener, Harald Penrose, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, James Thurber, John Toland, and MANY MORE.”

From eBay auction: “Also includes writings by Octave Chanute, Michael Collins, Roald Dahl, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Sigmund Freud, John Glenn, Joseph Heller, Leonardo da Vinci, C.P. Snow, Edgar Allen Poe, H.G. Wells, T.H. White, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, William Butler Yeats, and many more. ‘The Armchair Aviator’ touches on every aspect of man’s love affair with flight, from Icarus’s fall to the Eagle landing… Excellent essays, this is where literature, dreams, science, technology, history all meet. Great book about flight, airplane, astronauts and space travel, air power and military, World War I and World War II and role of Air Force, jet fighters, etc. Fascinating.”

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to be Read With the Door Locked

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Information

  • Published by:
    • Random House, 1975, USA.
  • Also contains:
    • “Hijack” by Robert L Fish
    • “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Adobe James
    • “Funeral in Another Town” by Jerry Jacobson
    • “A Case for Quiet” by William Jeffrey
    • “A Good Head for Murder” by Charles W Runyon
    • “The Invisible Cat” by Betty Ren Wright
    • “Light Verse” by Issac Asimov
    • “The Distributor” by Richard Matheson
    • “How Henry J Littlefinger Licked the Hippies Scheme to Take Over the Country by Tossing Pot in Postage Stamp Glue” by John Keefauver
    • “The Leak” by Jacques Futrelle
    • “All the Sounds of Fear” by Harlan Ellison
    • “Little Foxes Sleep Warm” by Waldo Carlton Wright
    • “The Graft is Green” by Harold Q Masur
    • “View by Moonlight” by Pat McGerr
    • “Ther Hangs Death!” by John D MacDonald
    • “Lincoln’s Doctor’s Son’s Dog” by Warner Law
    • “Coyote Street” by Gary Brandner
    • “Zombique” by Joseph Payne Brennan
    • “The Pattern” by Bill Pronzini
    • “Pipe Dream” by Alan Dean Foster
    • “Shottle Bop” by Theodore Sturgeon
    • “The Magnum” by Jack Ritchie
    • “Voices in the Dust” by Gerald Kersh
    • “The Odor of Melting” by Edward D Hoch
    • “The Sound of Murder” by William P McGivern
    • “The Income Tax Mystery” by Michael Gilbert
    • “Watch for It” by Joseph N Gores
    • “The Affair of the Twisted Scarf” by Rex Stout

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories that Go Bump in the Night

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Information

  • Published by:
    • Random House, 1977, USA.
  • Also contains:
    • “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce
    • “The Scruff of the Soul” by Doroty Salisbury Davis
    • “Murder On St.Valentine’s Day” by Mignon G. Eberhart
    • “Hey, Look At Me!” by Jack Finney
    • “Muldoon And The Numbers Game” by Robert L. Fish
    • “The Capture” by James Hay, Jr.
    • “The Guide’s Story” by Dion Henderson
    • “Woodrow Wilson’s Necktie” by Patricia Highsmith
    • “Something For The Dark” by Edward D. Hoch
    • “The Grey Shroud” by Antony Horner
    • “The Gentleman Caller” by Veronica Parker Johns
    • “The Coconut Trial” by Don Knowlton
    • “Man In A Trap” by John D. Macdonald
    • “The Bearded Lady” by Ross Macdonald
    • “Dead Game” by Harold Q. Masur
    • “No Such Thing As A Vampire” by Richard Matheson
    • “A Piece Of The World” by Steve O’Connell
    • “Easy Mark” by Talmage Powell
    • “Proof Of Guilt” by Bill Pronzini
    • “The Operator” by Jack Ritchie
    • “The Other Celia” by Theodore Sturgeon
    • “An Evening In Whitechapel” by Nancy Swoboda
    • “Wile Versus Guile” by Arthur Train

Covers

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me

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Information

  • Published by:
    • Random House, 1963, USA.
  • Also contains:
    • “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

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