Here are sixty-five spine-tingling tales, introduced by the master of suspense, the late Alfred Hitchcock. These suspenseful stories originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and, in the words of the master himself, are "calculated to make your blood run cold."

You'll find suave detectives, clever gangsters, bodies in trunks, kidnappings, adulterous affairs, murder and espionage. You'll meet a happy widower, a homicidal country woman, Russians seeking political asylum, a would-be Greenwich Village stud, the Viet Cong, a teenager out on an unfortunate date, and a very unhappy little boy at summer camp, willing to do anything to go home.

Beware -- this anthology is not recommended for late night reading. These masterful tales are guaranteed to unnerve.

Contents:

• Winter Run by Edward D. Hoch
• You Can't Blame Me by Henry Slesar
• A Flower in Her Hair by Pauline C. Smith
• The Cost of Kent Castwell by Avram Davidson
• The Cost of Kent Castwell by Avram Davidson
• Pseudo Identity by Lawrence Block
• That Russian! by Jack Ritchie
• Galton and the Yelling Boys by Hillary Waugh
• Blind Date by Charles Boeckman
• Pressure by Roderick Wilkinson
• The Running Man by Bill Pronzini
• The Vietnam Circle by F.J. Kelly
• Sadie When She Died by Ed McBain
• A Very Cautious Boy by Gilbert Ralston
• A Try for the Big Prize by Borden Deal
• Voice in the Night by Robert Colby
• Undertaker, Please Drive Slow by Ron Goulart
• Never Shake a Family Tree by Donald E. Westlake
• Here Lies Another Blackmailer by Bill Pronzini
• Dead Duck by Lawrence Treat
• Games for Adults by John Lutz
• Night of the Twisters by James Michael Ullman
• Variations on a Game by Patricia Highsmith
• Child's Play by William Link and Richard Levinson
• Just a Little Impractical Joke by Richard Stark
• Murderer #2 by Jean Potts
• The Third Call by Jack Ritchie
• Damon and Pythias and Delilah Brown by Rufus King
• Glory Hunter by Richard M. Ellis
• Linda is Gone by Pauline C. Smith
• Frightened Lady by C.B. Gilford
• Come Back, Come Back... by Donald E. Westlake
• Once Upon a Bank Floor by James Holding
• Warrior's Farewell by Edward D. Hoch
• Death By Misadventure by Wenzell Brown
• With a Smile for the Ending by Lawrence Block
• Television Country by Charlotte Edwards
• Art for Money's Sake by Dan J. Marlowe
• Nothing but Human Nature by Hillary Waugh
• Murder, 1990 by C.B. Gilford
• Panther, Panther in the Night by Paul W. Fairman
• Perfectly Timed Plot by E.X. Ferrars
• #8 by Jack Ritchie
• All the Needless Killing by Bryce Walton
• A Melee of Diamonds by Edward D. Hoch
• One for the Crow by Mary Barrett
• Happiness Before Death by Henry Slesar
• I Don't Understand It by Bill Pronzini
• News From Nowhere by Ron Goulart
• A Case of Desperation by Kate Wilhelm
• An Interlude for Murder by Paul Tabori
• Death Overdue by Eleanor Daly Boylan
• The Best-Friend Murder by Donald E. Westlake
• Pattern of Guilt by Helen Nielsen
• A Real, Live Murderer by Donald Honig
• Doctor Apollo by Bryce Walton
• The Pursuer by Holly Roth
• Final Arrangements by Lawrence Page
• Countdown by David Ely
• Murder Between Friends by Nedra Tyre
• Cast of the Kind Waitress by Henry Slesar
• Ghost of a Chance by Carroll Mayers
• The Montevideo Squeeze by James Holding
• The White Moth by Margaret Chenoweth