Alfred Hitchcock

Biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim's first wife—the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.

The classic study of the great director and his films, comprising a series of dialogues between Hitchcock and Truffaut, is fully updated with material on Hitchcock's last years and his final four films.

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Publisher description: The interviews in this collection catch Hitchcock at key moments of transition in his long career. These conversations dramatize his shifting attitudes on a variety of cinematic matters that engaged and challenged him, including the role of stars in a movie, the importance of story, the use of sound and color, his relationship to the medium of television, and the attractions and perils of realism.

Contents: Perfect Shot by Lawrence Treat The Amateur Philologist by August Derleth The Glint by Arthur Porges The Seventh Man by Helen Nielsen Voodoo Doll by Henry Slesar A Friendly Exorcise by Talmage Powell Many Women Too Many by C.B. Gilford Till Death by Fletcher Flora The Hitchhikers by Bruce Hunsberger Store Cop by Ed Lacy Doom Signal by John Lutz See What's in the Bag by Hal Ellson Fat Jow and the Walking Woman by Robert Alan Blair The Ghost and Mr. Grebner by Syd Hoff

Hijack / Robert L. Fish -- Tomorrow and tomorrow / Adobe James -- Funeral in another town / Jerry Jacobson -- A case for quiet / William Jeffrey -- A good head for murder / Charles W. Runyon -- The invisible cat / Betty Ren Wright -- [Royal Jelly]( / Roald Dahl -- Light verse / Isaac Asimov -- The distributor / Richard Matheson -- How Henry J. Littlefinger licked the hippies' scheme to take over the country by tossing pot in postage stamp glue / John Keefauver -- The leak / Jacques Futrelle -- All the sounds of fear / Harlan Ellison -- Little foxes sleep warm / Waldo Carlton Wright -- The graft is green / Harold Q. Masur. View by the moonlight / Pat McGerr -- There hangs death! / John D. MacDonald -- Lincoln's doctor's son's dog / Warner Law -- Coyote street / Gary Brandner -- Zombique / Joseph Payne Brennan -- The pattern / Bill Pronzini -- Pipe dream / Alan Dean Foster -- Shottle bop / Theodore Sturgeon -- The magnum / Jack Ritchie -- Voices in the dust / Gerald Kersh -- The odor of melting / Edward D. Hoch -- The sound of murder / William P. McGivern -- The income tax mystery / Michael Gilbert -- Watch for it / Joseph N. Gores -- The affair of the twisted scarf / Rex Stout.