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Editor:	Alfred Hitchcock
Title:	Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Country:	USA
Date:	1957
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Horror
Total Editions:	3
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ppint. 8th Feb 2021		simon & schuster first printing h/cvr, first edition 'ghost-edited'' by robert arthur (robert a. arthur, jr.) though published as edited by alfred hitchcock. anthology of twenty-five stories in all some of the content is also fantasy, but by no means all reprinted complete in the 1957 reinhardt uk h/cvr and also in the 1960 pan giant & 1967 uk p/b editions



ppint. 23rd May 2022		contents: being a murderer myself (short story) arthur williams (eqmm #57, 8/1948) lukundoo (ss) edward lucas white (weird tales vol.6 #5, 11/1925) a woman seldom found (ss) william sansom (in ''a contest of ladies & o.s.'' william sansom (1956), q.v.) the perfectionist (ss) margaret st. clair (mystery book magazine vol.3 #3, 5/1946) the price of the head (ss) john russell (collier's 20/5/1916) love comes to miss lucy (ss) q. patrick (eqmm #41, 4/1947) sredni vashtar (ss) ''saki'' (the westminster gazette 28/5/1910) love lies bleeding (novelette) (eqmm #84, 11/1950) the dancing partner (excerpt) jerome k. jerome (from ''novel notes'' jerome k. jerome (1893)) casting the runes (ntte) m. r. james (in ''more ghost stories of an antiquary'' m. r. james (1911)) the voice in the night (ss) william hope hodgson (blue book magazine vol.6 #1, 11/1907) how love came to professor guildea (novella) robert s. hichens (pearson's 10/1897, as ''the man who was beloved'') the moment of decision (ntte) stanley ellin (eqmm vol.25 #3, 3/1925) a jungle graduate (ss) james francis dwyer (harper's weekly 10/9/1910) recipe for murder (ss) c. p. donnell (american legion magazine 1/1947) nunc dimittis (ntte) ronald dahl (collier's 4/9/1953 as ''the devious bachelor'') the most dangerous game (ss) richard edward connell (collier's 19/1/1924) the lady on the grey (ss) john collier (the new yorker 15/6/1951) the waxwork (ss) a. m. burrage (in ''someone in the room'' ex-private x (pseudonym of a. m. burrage) (1931)) the dumb wife (ss) thomas burke (in ''whispering windows'' thomas burke (1931)) couching at the door (ntte) dorothy k. broster (the cornhill magazine 12/1933) the october game (ss) ray bradbury (weird tales vol. xxxx #3, 3/1948) water's edge (ss) robert bloch (michael shayne mystery magazine vol.1 #1, 9/1956) the jokester (ss) robert arthur (mysterious traveller magazine 3/1952 as by ''anthony morton) the abyss (ss) leonid andreyev translated by john cournos (in ''a treasury of russian life and humor'' ed. ??, coward mccann (1943)) eqmm = ellery queen's mystery magazine (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 8th Feb 2021		and very cleverly first combined in h/cvr one and two years *before* those two ''original us releases'' were published. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



23skidoo 7th Feb 2021		Appears to be a combination of the original US releases "12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV" and "13 More Stories they Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV." (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 24th May 2019		cover art by s. r. boldero (uncredited, reused from 1960 first pan edition/printing, in new cover design) cover price 5/-, 384pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 22nd May 2019		the ''alfred hitchcock presents'' series of crime, horror & mystery reprint anthologies with one exception,''bar the doors: tales of terror'' (1946), retitled in 1962 to fit into the series, the series of anthologies was ghost-edited by robert arthur, up to and including ''alfred hitchcock presents a month of mystery'' (1969, the year robert arthur died): #1: ''alfred hitchcock presents stories they wouldn't let me do on tv'' (1957), q.v. #1usa: ''12 stories they wouldn't let me do on tv'' (mmpb 1958), q.v. #1usb: ''13 more stories they wouldn't let me do on tv'' (mmpb 1959), q.v. #1ukpb: ''stories they wouldn't let me do on tv (abridged)'' (uk 1960), (this edition) #2: ''alfred hitchcock presents my favorites in suspense'' (1959), q.v. #2usa: ''14 of my favorites in suspense'' (mmpb 1960), q.v. #2usb: ''more of my favorites in suspense'' (mmpb 1961), q.v. #2uka: ''my favourites in suspense: part one'' (1962), q.v. #2ukb: ''my favourites in suspense: part two'' (1963), q.v. #3: ''alfred hitchcock presents stories for late at night'' (1961), q.v. #3usa: ''12 stories for late at night'' (mmpb 1962), q.v. #3usb: ''more stories for late at night'' (mmpb 1962), q.v. #3uk: ''alfred hitchcock presents stories for late at night'' (1962), q.v., drops two stories #3uka: ''stories for late at night: part 1'' (uk 1964), q.v. #3ukb: ''stories for late at night: part 2'' (uk 1965), q.v. #4: ''bar the doors: terror stories'' (mmpb 1946), q.v. ghost-edited by don ward later editions drop ''couching at the door'' (ss) dorothy k. broster, cornhill magazine 12/1933 #4a: ''alfred hitchcock presents: bar the doors'' (mmpb 1962), q.v. #4auk: ''alfred hitchcock presents: bar the doors'' (uk 1972), q.v. (title on cover; but ''alfred hitchcock's bar the doors'' on title page) #5: ''alfred hitchcock presents stories my mother never told me'' (1963), q.v. #5usa: ''(N )stories my mother never told me( abridged)'' (c.1965) existence implied by: #5usb: ''more stories my mother never told me'' (1965), q.v. #5uka: ''stories my mother never told me: part 1'' (uk 1966), q.v. #5ukb: ''stories my mother never told me: part 2'' (uk 1967), q.v. #6: ''alfred hitchcock presents stories not for the nervous'' (1965), q.v. #6usa: ''stories not for the nervous (abridged)'' (mmpb 1966), q.v. #6usb: ''more stories not for the nervous'' (mmpb 1967), q.v. #6uka: ''stories not for the nervous: part one'' (uk 1968), q.v. #6uka: ''~: book one'' (uk 1974), q.v. #6ukb: ''stories not for the nervous: part two'' (uk 1969), q.v. #6ukb: ''~: book two'' (uk 1974), q.v. (''book one'' & ''book two'' on covers, still ''part one'' & ''part two'' on title pages) #7: ''alfred hitchcock presents stories that scared even me'' (1967), q.v. #7uka: ''stories that scared even me: part one'' (1970), q.v. #7ukb: ''stories that scared even me: part two'' (1970), q.v. #7usa: ''alfred hitchcock presents: scream along with me'' (mmpb 1970), q.v. #7usb: ''alfred hitchcock presents: slay ride'' (mmpb 1971), q.v. #8: ''alfred hitchcock presents a month of mystery'' (1969), q.v. the three first published in the 1970s were edited by harold q. masur: #9: ''alfred hitchcock presents: stories to be read with the door locked'' (1975), q.v. #9usa: ''stories to be read with the door locked (volume 1)'' (1977), q.v. #9usb: ''stories to be read with the door locked (volume two)'' (1977), q.v. #9usb: aka ''i want my mummy'' (mmpb 1981), q.v. #10: ''alfred hitchcock presents: stories that go bump in the night'' (1977), q.v. #10uka: ''stories that go bump in the night: book 1'' (1980), q.v. #10ukb: ''stories that go bump in the night: book 2'' (1980), q.v. #11: ''alfred hitchcock prese (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st May 2019		cover art by s. r. (stephen richard) boldero (uncredited, art is signed) cover price 3'6 indicated by X-prefix series cat# and ''pan giant' top front cover (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Alfred Hitchcock - Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV - Pan - Paperback - UK (1960)

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Alfred Hitchcock - Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV - Pan - Paperback - UK (1967)