Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (November 1963)


cover by Marguerite Blair Deacon

Details

journal: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (November 1963)
issue: volume 8, number 11

Introduction

Dear Readers:

Since the first showing of THE BIRDS many moviegoers are convinced I have supernatural powers and can produce a flock of feathered friends wherever I go. I don't wish to disabuse such confidence nor fall from such celestial heights on the wing of their disillusionment, but I must.

Halloween, haunted houses, ghost stores and supernatural manifestations are synonymous. For me they can be calamitous. Hence my appeal to the Boys in Blue each Halloween, and my subsequent incarceration during All Saints' Eve. Here is where I sing a few old songs with the fellows in the constabulary and then return to the safety of my home after the bougainvillea bushes, the high ixora hedge, the patio and garage are checked for anti-Hitchcock merrymakers.

We admit it's all fun until my wife tells me a ghost story and then I'm certain I've heard someone in the house as in August Derleth's story, ADVENTURE OF THE HAUNTED HOUSE, in this issue. This story and Michael Zuroy's, THE AWFUL EXPERIMENT, should supply horripilant material to spook any party, Halloween or otherwise.

— Alfred Hitchcock

A Girl Must be Practical - Richard Deming
The Missing Bow - Arthur Porges
Invasion - Richard H. Wilkinson
Out of Order - Carl Henry Rathjen
Private and Confidential - Diane Frazer
The Awful Experiment - Michael Zuroy
The Pulque Vendor - Hal Ellson
To Stop a Fire - Elijah Ellis
Stop Killing Me - Hal Dresner
Vendetta - Van Derveer
The Hitchhiker - Alexandra Hill

Novelette

The Adventure of the Haunted Library - August Derleth

Notes

The Missing Bow was reprinted in This Day's Evil: Alfred Hitchcock (1967)
Private and Confidential was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Happiness is a Warm Corpse (1969)
Stop Killing Me was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Death Bag (1969)
Adventure of the Haunted Library was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's a Hearse of a Different Color (1972) and Alfred Hitchcock's Borrowers of the Night (1983)
To Stop a Fire was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Boys and Ghouls Together (1974)

Magazine Credits

Richard E. Decker - Editor and Publisher
Victoria S. Benham - Associate Editor
G.F. Foster - Managing Editor
Pat Hitchcock - Associate Editor
Ned Benham - Associate Editor
Donald C. Dilworth - Associate Editor
Marguerite Blair Deacon - Art Director

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