Be afraid--be very afraid: the master of suspense is serving up 58 bloodcurdling tales for your delectation. These suspenseful stories all appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and in the words of Hitch himself, they "are guaranteed to chill and unnerve." Bill Pronzini contributes "The Arrowmont Prison Riddle," Margaret B. Maron has "A Very Special Talent," Barry M. Malzberg offers "A Home Away from Home," and Patricia Matthews chronicles "The Fall of Dr. Scourby." Meet a girl who stalks Jack the Ripper, a clairvoyant writer of newspaper obituaries, a homicidal partygoer in a sanatorium, and a police detective who lives vicariously through the exploits of one of his most notorious suspects: they all populate these frightening pages. Caution: not recommended for late-night reading--except for the very brave   

CONTENTS 
Killed by Kindness ..... Nedra Tyre 
Just a Minor Offense ..... John F. Suter 
A Home Away From Home ..... Robert Bloch 
Death of a Derelict ..... Joseph Payne Brennan 
The Arrowmont Prison Riddle ..... Bill Pronzini 
The Dettweiler Solution ..... Lawrence Block 
The Whitechapel Wantons ..... Vincent McConnor 
Cora's Raid ..... Isak Romun 
Life or Breath ..... Nelson deMille 
A Private Little War ..... William Brittain 
Have You Ever Seen This Woman? ..... John Lutz 
Joe Cutter's Game ..... Brian Garfield 
A Cabin in the Woods ..... John Coyne 
The Long Arm of El Jefe ..... Edward Wellen 
Kid Cardula ..... Jack Ritchie 
Career Man ..... James Holding 
The Perfidy of Professor Blake ..... Libby MacCall 
Sea Change ..... Henry Slesar 
The Blue Tambourine ..... Donald Olson 
Graveyard Shift ..... William P. McGivern 
A Bottle of Wine ..... Borden Deal 
Man Bites Dog ..... Donald Honig 
Never Trust an Ancestor ..... Michael Zuroy 
Another War ..... Edward D. Hoch 
Sparrow on a String ..... Alice Scanlan Reach 
The Missing Tattoo ..... Clayton Matthews 
The Fall of Dr. Scourby ..... Patricia Matthews 
The Loose End ..... Stephen Wasylyk 
That So-called Laugh ..... Frank Sisk 
A Very Special Talent ..... Margaret B. Maron 
The Joker ..... Betty Ren Wright 
The Very Hard Sell ..... Helen Nielsen 
The Tin Ear ..... Ron Goulart 
The Time Before the Crime ..... Charlotte Edwards 
After the Unfortunate Accident ..... Barry N. Malzberg 
The Grateful Thief ..... Patrick O'Keeffe 
The Inspiration ..... Talmage Powell 
Death is a Lonely Lover ..... Robert Colby 
The Witness was a Lady ..... Fletcher Flora 
Scheme for Destruction ..... Pauline C. Smith 
To the Manner Born ..... Mary Braund 
Black Disaster ..... Richard O. Lewis 
The Marrow of Justice ..... Hal Ellson 
Innocent Witness ..... Irving Schiffer 
We're Really Not That Kind of People ..... Samuel W. Taylor 
Pocket Evidence ..... Harold Q. Masur 
The Death Desk ..... S.S. Rafferty 
A Left-handed Profession ..... Al Nussbaum 
Second Spring ..... Theodore Mathieson 
Bank Night ..... Arthur Porges 
The Contagious Killer ..... Bryce Walton 
Bad Actor ..... Gary Brandner 
Free Advice, Incorporated ..... Michael Brett 
The Real Criminal ..... James M. Gilmore 
The Hard Sell ..... William Dolan 
The Prosperous Judds ..... Bob Bristow 
The Dead Indian ..... Robert W. Alexander 
The China Cottage ..... August Derleth