![]() ![]() In the 1950s and 1960s, as an uncredited ghost editor, Arthur anonymously compiled more than a dozen anthologies of mystery, suspense and supernatural stories which were purportedly edited by Alfred Hitchcock these books were authorized by the real Hitchcock but were entirely edited by Arthur, who typically included at least one of his own stories in most of the anthologies in addition to ghostwriting for each book a foreword allegedly authored by Hitchcock.Īrthur, along with his writing partner David Kogan, was twice honored by the Mystery Writers of America with an Edgar Award for Best Radio Drama: In 1950, for Murder by Experts, and again in 1953, for The Mysterious Traveler. wrote a number of mystery books, mostly for children, and he also worked on the anthology television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He is frequently confused with the film producer Robert Arthur, who was nine days older than mystery writer Robert Arthur, Jr. was a mystery writer known for The Mysterious Traveler radio series and his Three Investigators series of novels. True crimes, ugh! Alas, most of them are dull and give no evidence of the careful planning and loving thought that should go into any human activity as rewarding as murder." What is more delightful than a domestic crime, when it is executed with subtlety and imagination? I leave to other more pedestrian talents materials based on newspaper accounts. The true aficionado prefers to have his nerves ruffled by the implied thread-the Borgias rather than the Syndicate. Murder is a fine art and needs the embellishment of a sophisticated imagination. "The blunt instrument, the gang murder, the paid assassin have always seemed to me positively indelicate. Askes to explain his approach to fictional crime, he wrote: ![]() ![]() As everyone knows, he is a specialist in the macabre and bizarre. According to the American College Dictionary, terror "implies an intense fear which is somewhat prolonged and may refer to imagined or future dangers." When Alfred Hitchcock chooses stories to arouse terror, he is meticulously faithful to this definition.ĭoes a haunted house frighten you? A contest between a man and a rat? Possession? Witchcraft? Does your blood chill when you think of someone being deliberately driven mad? How about a man who becomes half man, half fly? How about a tree that screams when you cut it down? Or a room that shrieks when no one is in it?Īlfred Hitchcock has chosen twenty-one stories, two novelettes, and a complete novel guaranteed to terrify most normal people and even some abnormal ones. ![]()
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