Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbinders in Suspense

10 best books like Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbinders in Suspense (Alfred Hitchcock): Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense, Robin Hood, The Case of the Baker Street Irregular, Anne Perry Presents Malice Domestic, I Shudder at Your Touch, True Irish Ghost Stories, The Quest of the Warrior Sheep, Academic Exercises, The Mystery of the Dead Man's Riddle, The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce

AuthorSarah Weinman
ISBN0143122541
Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre

Murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters—and their creators—better than Sarah Weinman. One of today’s preeminent authorities...
AuthorLouis Rhead
ISBN0517671298
A comprehensive, well-researched, clearly written and beautifully illustrated collection of the original Robin Hood tales. Rhead sticks very close to the canonical ballads- perhaps too close, resulting in a few too many tales that follow the eventually tedious pattern of Robin meeting someone,...
AuthorRobert Newman
Sherlock Holmes is basically a literary superhero to me. Sure his weaknesses are a little more interesting than most but he holds the same appeal to me as comic books do to fanboys. (or girls!) I am just one huge grin at all of the quick conversations, random factoids and asides, and during the eventual...
AuthorAnne Perry
ISBN1416501673
Collects seventeen traditional mysteries by such contemporary writers as Marjorie Eccles, Jan Burke, Anthea Fraser, and Edward Marston.

Contents:
* A Dance with Life, Death... and Laughter by Anne Perry
* The Corbett Correspondence by Edward Marston & Peter Lovesey
...
AuthorMichele Slung
ISBN0451451600
There is no sexual act that is not dangerous...

And every caress, no matter how innocent, has the power to open our lives to the dark mysteries of desire, the places where outrageous fantasies and fears are held in check.

Held in check, that is, until it occurs to such supremely talented...
AuthorSt. John D. Seymour
"There are more things in heaven and in earth, Horatio," Shakespeare has Hamlet observe to his skeptical friend (who dismisses the possibility of a ghostly apparition) than are dreamt of in your philosophy!" That might be a good epigraph for this collection. Assembled by amateur researchers of the...
AuthorChristine Russell
OH MY GRASS!

When Sal the sheep is bonked on the head by an unidentified falling object, it can only mean one thing: Lord Aries, the Sheep of all Sheepdom is in trouble, and the sheep posse must save him.

Little do the sheep know that the mysterious object is actually a cell phone dropped...
AuthorK.J. Parker
ISBN1596066091
Academic Exercises is the first collection of shorter work by master novelist K.J. Parker, and it is a stunner. Weighing in at over 500 pages, this generous volume gathers together thirteen highly distinctive stories, essays, and novellas, including the recent World Fantasy Award-Winner, “Let...
The Mystery of the Dead Man's Riddle
AuthorWilliam Arden
ISBN0006914780
Eine Folge, die ich gestern abend zum Einschlafen gehört habe, und eine meiner Kann-ich-immer-und-immer-wieder-hören-Folgen der Drei ???.
Das war noch die Zeit, in der es nicht in gefühlt jeder Folge einen Schatz zu heben galt, wobei man vorher einen Rätseltext auseinanderklamüsern...
AuthorMichael Newton
ISBN0141442360
'The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible... He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, for mortals, at best, are but transients' - Dorothy Scarborough

This new...
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories
AuthorPeter Haining
ISBN1854875361
An outstanding collection of literary ghost stories includes 30 of the best examples of the genre, featuring contributions from Jack London, Agatha Christie, John Steinbeck, Muriel Spark, Daphne du Maurier, William Trevor, Mary Higgins Clark, and others.
Contents:
The third person...
AuthorRichard Matheson
Although Rod Serling, who created the classic television series that ran from 1959 to 1965, is the writer most associated with The Twilight Zone, he was not, of course, the only one. Serling was a serious admirer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, and he scoured every magazine and collection available...
AuthorRobert Arthur
ISBN0394413466
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.

Does a haunted house frighten...
AuthorDel Howison
ISBN0786719516
In a second distinguished collection of twenty superb, sublimely dark tales written especially for this volume, such acknowledged contemporary masters of horror fiction as Barbara Hambly, John Farris, James Sallis, Steve Niles, Tananarive Due, L. A. Banks, and Gary Brandner serve up a veritable...
Gods of Eden: Egypt's Lost Legacy and the Genesis of Civilization
AuthorAndrew Collins
ISBN1879181762
A groundbreaking historical documentation of the secret history of pre-Pharonic Egypt and the race of angels that built it.

•By the author of From the Ashes of Angels and Gateway to Atlantis (more than 30,000 copies sold in the United Kingdom).

•Unlocks the secrets of how the...
AuthorDaphne du Maurier
ISBN0140034005
Daphne du Maurier and Cornwall belong together as surely as Hardy and Dorset, or Dickens and Christmas.

Miss du Maurier has made Cornwall her home for most of her life and has shown her love and knowledge of all things Cornish in some of her greatest successes, Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek, Jamaica...
AuthorNina Baym
"The Book of Love" piece in the goodreads' newsletter reminded me of this wonderful anthology--which I purchased in a travel shop in Barcelona during the Summer of 1990. I anticipated that the various narratives found in the collection would teach me more about American history. But, what surprised...
The Mystery of the Sinister Scarecrow
AuthorM.V. Carey
ISBN0394941829
Ein spontanes Drei ??? Buch zum Abendessen.

Die Hörspielfolge zu dieser Geschichte ist eine sehr gute, die ich mir immer wieder gerne anhöre, aber ich muss sagen, das Buch dazu stellt das Hörerlebnis fast schon in den Schatten. Der Spannungsaufbau ist meisterlich umgesetzt (wie Justus...
AuthorHelen MacInnes
ISBN0854562206
Kenneth Strang sets out for Sicily and Greece on a seemingly innocent, though fascinating, magazine assignment. But even before his ship sails from New York, the atmosphere becomes charged with sinister omens.

In the course of the voyage one mysterious event follows another. After his arrival...
AuthorPatricia Highsmith
ISBN0393325008
'Nothing That Meets the Eye' confirms Patricia Highsmith as a great American writer.

If only Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) had been alive to see the thunderous critical response to the publication of the best-selling 'The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith' in 2001. Now the Highsmith...
The Union Club Mysteries
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0449205258
The Union Club Mysteries is a collection of mystery short stories by American author Isaac Asimov featuring his fictional mystery solver Griswold. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1983 and in paperback by the Fawcett Crest imprint of Ballantine Books in 1985.

The book collects...
AuthorDavid Rosenwasser
ISBN1413010121
There are so many engaging writing tools in this book, and so many tools that are less formulaic and more generative than those found in TS/IS, that I plan to continue teaching this text as long as I continue to teach. (And I plan to continue teaching as long as KSU, or any university, continues offering...
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