**SELLER NOTE: This book is in extremely poor condition. Water damage, stains, and torn cover. Will send in sealed plastic bag for best possible condition.** As always, the master of suspense can be counted on to provide delight, chills, and spine-tingling terror, as he does, as latest of the biennial Hitchcock anthologies. Here is what he has to say about the book: “I trust that you have been profitably occupied since our last meeting. My unemployed Uncle Albert often told me that idle hands lead one to mischief. So I myself have been busy in the interim preparing this new collection for your reading pleasure. “As you know, I am in the business of entertainment, and all the long years of relentlessly, searching for likely material, one’s appetite is up to become jaded. So the discovery of original stories, stories that can excite or delight, that will chill, or perhaps even kill, provides a rare gratification. “Now the word ‘kill’ may of course be somewhat of an exaggeration. The printed page is not generally fatal. On the other hand, no foundation or trust that I know of has ever financed any research into this area. It is not beyond the realm of possibility. It is a biological fact that excitement makes the heart beat faster. And an accelerated heartbeat could conceivably pump an existing embolism into some critical artery. This has been known to stop the works completely. “Caution, then, is the watchword. If you are a candidate for so gruesome of fate, you should not be here in the first place. You should donate this book at once to some worthy charity. I suggest said that you read Ferdinand the Bull or Little Women. “A final word. “Unlike television, the editing of this volume requires no sponsors. As a consequence, we do not have to waste time, listening to peers, hocking, deodorants or denture fixatives that permit octogenarians to chew salt-water taffy. We can get right down to the business at hand. “So, if you please, make sure the doors locked, then double-lock it, turn the page and start to read.”