Re: Classic Horror Anthologies
Posted by:
Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 19 May, 2022 09:17AM
Ken K. Wrote:
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> By the way, I didn't mean to dismiss the
> anthologies issued under Hitchcock's name. In the
> early seventies I devoured those, starting with
> the ones intended for younger readers (
> SPELLBINDERS IN SUSPENSE, MONSTER MUSEUM, SINISTER
> SPIES, etc.) and proceeding to the mystery
> collections in the adult section. Ah!
> Encountering murder, mayhem, lust,
> corruption...the delicious thrill of the
> forbidden!
I still have many of the old ALFRED HITCHCOCK AND THE THREE INVESTIGATORS novels, with "Text by Robert Arthur" in tiny print on an inside page. I remember my dad explaining to me that this meant that Robert Arthur was the actual author. Yes, even of the introduction by Alfred Hitchcock. We had some Hitchock horror anthologies too, and I think Robert Arthur was responsible for them as well (selecting, editing and contributing stories).